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Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by 867-5309 »

Bluecobra wrote: post #346
domh wrote: post #315

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I used a small independent proxy company that I paid £50 a year annually through PayPal. I think they must've been small enough to fly under the radar of the detection algorithms. When I went onto google maps connected to the proxy, it always thought I was in Dubai, which gives you an idea of the clientele. Maybe it was something to do with the fact that it was a Proxy and not a VPN, though I'm not sure if this makes…

I also used some UK shell provider (via SOCKS proxy + Putty) in the past and it worked really well. My guess is that there’s some there’s kind of threshold/concurrent connection that iPlayer looks at per IP address. It’s pretty silly though, I would absolutely pay for a TV license if given the opportunity. Dear BBC: Shut up and take my money!

how far in the past ago, during nascent video streaming pre-VPN days? with live tv as well as VOD? if there is a relatively cheap, concrete solution I did not uncover which has been stable for over a year I would buy that wizard a thimbleful of scumble

Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by folmar »

_rdvw wrote: post #336
brucethemoose2 wrote: post #265

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Firefox runs like cold molassas on Android, unfortunately. Bromite seems like its sticking around, fortunately.

Bromite has not been updated since December 12th 2022 per my history here: https://divestos.org/misc/ch-dates.txt

See https://github.com/bromite/bromite/issues/2575#issuecomment-... for up-to-date beta.

Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by [deleted] »

Stagnant wrote: post #334
Spinnaker_ wrote: post #302

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Is there a source for expressvpn actually using BHProxies? I had no clue it was that sketchy. It is owned by a public company, so that's pretty substantial news if true.

I would be very skeptical of the claim, quite worrying to see multiple people accepting that as a fact without any kind of evidence to support the claim. I'd be shocked if any of the major VPN providers were involved with illegal residential proxies. It just doesn't make sense, can you imagine just how unstable and slow those connections would be? Why would they risk being legally liable when there exists legal resid…

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Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by _rdvw »

folmar wrote: post #352
_rdvw wrote: post #336

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Bromite has not been updated since December 12th 2022 per my history here: https://divestos.org/misc/ch-dates.txt

See https://github.com/bromite/bromite/issues/2575#issuecomment-... for up-to-date beta.

uazo is doing a great job maintaining it but there is still an undecidedness to it:

See https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools/issues/109#issuec... and https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools/issues/76 and https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools/issues/59

Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by nearbuy »

_0lhw wrote: post #117
ta1243 wrote: post #31

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Except most of the time I don't want to spoof my timezone, don't want weird spacing around websites, and do want to remain logged in to websites. > How do I stay logged into specific websites between sessions? > It’s not possible. It’s an action to combat tracking. Turns me off immediately

No one wants that, most websites become broken by taking pro-privacy measures. It's about not consenting to tracking. Right now the majority of users are implicitly giving consent to tracking. It seems like a harmless thing to be tracked, but once the likes of haveibeenpwned.com came out and the databases that fuel it, and services that provide search utility to those databases, it should become clear that being trac…

So in this scenario, if only you had used the Mullvad browser then... you wouldn't have have found out this employer snoops on their employees and might have accepted their job offer? You've concocted a scenario where a privacy-focused browser ends up causing you problems.

Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by hotpathdev »

nearbuy wrote: post #356
_0lhw wrote: post #117

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No one wants that, most websites become broken by taking pro-privacy measures. It's about not consenting to tracking. Right now the majority of users are implicitly giving consent to tracking. It seems like a harmless thing to be tracked, but once the likes of haveibeenpwned.com came out and the databases that fuel it, and services that provide search utility to those databases, it should become clear that being trac…

So in this scenario, if only you had used the Mullvad browser then... you wouldn't have have found out this employer snoops on their employees and might have accepted their job offer? You've concocted a scenario where a privacy-focused browser ends up causing you problems.

I'm not advocating for this browser specifically, only encouraging more people to take pro-privacy and online safety measures.

It's pointless to say the problem is the employer, or the hacker who released the data, or the programmer who relied on bad algorithms, or the admin who didn't secure the data. One way or another, this data will get leaked, the old hashing and encryption techniques will be broken and there will be people searching through it all. Forget about the government, at least they are beholden to law and maintaining the appearance of adhering to it. Substitute employer for neighbor, girlfriend or internet stalker and you have equally valid scenarios which are even more disturbing in my mind.

Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by josephcsible »

lurtbancaster wrote: post #330
brewdad wrote: post #254

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If a user cares about privacy and security why would they be using an outdated, unsupported OS? That would be like double dead bolting the front door but leaving the window next to it wide open.

My point is that if it's just Tor Browser without Tor, then there's functionally no reason to have that build be incompatible with Windows 7. Unless they deliberately coded it in like if OS=Win7/Win8 ; then Crash ; else Run Which would be a dick move, especially because Firefox, on which Tor Browser and Mullvad Browser are based, still supports Windows 7. --------- Now to your point. It is absolutely possible to run…

None of what you did makes Windows 7 secure enough to use safely in 2023.

Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by [deleted] »

the_duke wrote: post #142

I use a custom Firefox config that tweaks and disables lots of features, based on this template: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js . Fun fact: this makes you extremely easy to identify, because it gives your browser a very unique fingerprint. If JS is enabled, that is, which you can disable by default, but JS is simply a requirement for many websites to function. I wonder how they approached this problem this for t…

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Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by josephcsible »

webmobdev wrote: post #209

Important Note : Tor browser isn't truly private as it connects to Firefox services on start-up, even if you disable all options that require these. (Unlike zero telemetry / "no automated connections" browsers like the Orion browser - https://browser.kagi.com/ - or the PaleMoon browser - http://www.palemoon.org/ that actually do respect your browser settings). This seems deliberate as no attempts have been made to fi…

Do you have any evidence to back up this claim?
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