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Mozilla and Firefox could be about to change the VPN and privacy market

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Re: Mozilla and Firefox could be about to change the VPN and privacy market

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I wish Mozilla would get into the email service market. I could really go for a reasonably-priced, ad-free, Gmail-sized, bring-your-own-domain email service.

... thunderbird? (I'm aware they're no longer maintaining it(?) but it's posed as a genuine option.)

I think GP means a Gmail competitor, where Mozilla runs the servers for you.

Re: Mozilla and Firefox could be about to change the VPN and privacy market

#22

I wish Mozilla would get into the email service market. I could really go for a reasonably-priced, ad-free, Gmail-sized, bring-your-own-domain email service.

There's speculation in TFA about Mozilla buying ProtonMail/ProtonVPN.

Re: Mozilla and Firefox could be about to change the VPN and privacy market

#24

If you're using Firefox go to about:config and set media.autoplay.allow-muted to false. Blocks all of those pesky autoplay videos!

This is a default feature as of the latest version.

I'm using the latest version and it was set to true.

Re: Mozilla and Firefox could be about to change the VPN and privacy market

#25

If you're using Firefox go to about:config and set media.autoplay.allow-muted to false. Blocks all of those pesky autoplay videos!

No, that doesn't stop the videos from playing. It only mutes them. You still have the visual interference of the animation, along with unwillingly downloading massive amounts of video data.

Re: Mozilla and Firefox could be about to change the VPN and privacy market

#26

It'd be interesting to see 'super private browsing mode' which has Tor integration be shipped with Firefox. Making Tor easier to use and more accessible for normal people is a huge win for privacy.

I know it isn't Firefox, but Brave is a Chromium-based browser that has Tor built-in with their 'Private Tabs'. It is a really nice privacy focused browser. Everything good about Chrome, without everything bad about Google.

Tor tabs is useless without fingerprinting resistance, otherwise you still can be tracked.

Re: Mozilla and Firefox could be about to change the VPN and privacy market

#27
post #13

As an aside, Firefox for Android is great for power users because it has extensions. It's much closer to feature-parity with desktop browsers than Chrome is, and offers more significant advantages over Chrome on Android than desktop as a result.

For power users, it's not just the extensions on Android (though it's a big part). It's the massively cross-platform for many years: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Android, BB10, MacOS, and more (I'm only listing the ones I've used in somewhat recent memory). To have that feature parity across so many platforms has immense value to me. I can support family, friends, co-workers.

Re: Mozilla and Firefox could be about to change the VPN and privacy market

#28
post #5

> Firefox Send allows you to share large files securely (but not store them). The caveat being that you need to have a Firefox account to use all of the above ... There's no requirement for a Firefox account, for Send. And it works well via Tor, with no CAPTCHA bullshit.

You don’t need a Firefox account for files up to 1GB but you do for files from 1 - 2.5GB in size. It says so right on the home page.

https://send.firefox.com/

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