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Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by maxisme »

miniyarov wrote: post #143

Public VPN services should not be trusted blindly. Online anonymity is very hard. However, you can still create your own VPN server on cloud providers for at least have some privacy while you are on an untrusted network. Because of this reason, I created https://zudvpn.com - It is a free and open-source mobile application that's used to deploy a private VPN server on major Cloud Providers! Github repo: https://github…

But doing this will give you a static IP which will make you even less anonymous.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by r8deoh »

benhurmarcel wrote: post #270
stilisstuk wrote: post #254

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel a bit different: Email is a standard. You are talking about an app. Send later is the job of the application,not the standard. Same with reply all. Intelligent priority inbox is _hard_ but i. Principle the same. When you use gmail you conflate the standard with the app.

With Fastmail you're essentially buying the app as much as the service. If you want reliable email service without the nice app, there are much cheaper alternatives.

Such as?

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by smichel17 »

sequoia wrote: post #137
smichel17 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

=== edit because I feel this comment is not substantive enough / engages with a strawman version of your comment === I understand you're talking about where those feelings come from -- ie, that the feelings are more useful information when backed by the reason for them. And you do provide some of that in your post (privacy, watching US Netflix). But those are things that any trustworthy VPN with US-based endpoints ca…

"unsubstantiated feelings" heh, that's a pretty ungenerous/rude way of putting it. Here's a better way: "Can you explain why you like Windscribe? You say you've used other providers, how is Windscribe different?" If you're not clear on something it's always best to ask for clarification before accusing the other party of fabrication or making "unsubstantiated" claims. So why do I like Windscribe? Good question! I lik…

> "unsubstantiated feelings" heh, that's a pretty ungenerous/rude way of putting it.

Thank you for the feedback. It wasn't meant to be rude, but I see now how it can be interpreted that way (particularly with the unedited original comment below, which was intended to be... not rude, but let's say, harsher than I'm proud of, a few hours later). Text is hard -.-

Asking clarifying questions instead is a good suggestion. Your answers are good, too; if I'm ever in the vpn market, I'll put Windscribe on my shortlist to research more thoroughly.

> I'm not sure if you read TFA

I have not and do not currently intend to. I checked in with the comments because I was curious how it would be received. I replied to your comment because I was frustrated at what seemed to be hypocritical criticism. I still think your original comment is light on detail/justificatipn, so I'm happy my reply, however rude and imperfect, lead to your second comment, which is the type of thing I was hoping to find when I opened the thread :)

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by classics2 »

I stopped using Firefox when they discontinued RSS support saying “it’s too hard and old and lame! Oh but here’s Pocket (tm) which costs money and has nothing at all to do with cutting RSS support”

I wouldn’t expect much different here.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by m3kw9 »

DCKing wrote: post #141

Come on Mozilla, hurry up! I want to give you money for goods and services (I also donate monthly [1]), but I'm not that interested in a VPN (I can and do also pay Mullvad). Give me that real internet stuff - email, calendar, file sync, chat(?) - give me Firefox Premium. Bundle in the Lockwise password manager. I'd pay good money to see a company fill the void of paid, privacy first essential internet services and I…

Not sure why I would switch to another chat, email, file, sync just because it’s from Mozilla

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by bjdean »

calvinmorrison wrote: post #241
j1elo wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was just about to change to something different from LastPass, pretty much convinced about Bitwarden from previous HN mentions, until you mentioned Lockwise :-) care to share some pros and cons or comparison between these two?

I can offer up 1password comments. It has a good native app for osx. I don't use osx. It offers a CLI tool that spits out json. I wish it would just integrate with pass(1). The Firefox add-on is close enough to abysmal that I use thier website making it inconvenient. It doesn't work with regular http auth so you have to copy the fields in manually then refresh. Otherwise it's fine. The multiple Vaults is great to sha…

> It doesn't work with regular http auth so you have to copy the fields in manually then refresh.

There's a slightly easier way - escape out of the basic auth dialog box, open the 1password menu which will be showing you the website you're on and select 'Autofill', and then reload the page (ie Ctrl-R) and the basic auth is supplied from 1password.

Not great, but easier and faster than copying in username and password fields manually (and with keyboard shortcuts available to do each step it can be quite fast).

From 1password comments I believe the limitation is because Firefox does not allow 1password to interact with the auth dialog box (which isn't strictly a bad policy from a general security point of view).

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by voltagex_ »

hendersoon wrote: post #276
DCKing wrote: post #141

Come on Mozilla, hurry up! I want to give you money for goods and services (I also donate monthly [1]), but I'm not that interested in a VPN (I can and do also pay Mullvad). Give me that real internet stuff - email, calendar, file sync, chat(?) - give me Firefox Premium. Bundle in the Lockwise password manager. I'd pay good money to see a company fill the void of paid, privacy first essential internet services and I…

Mozilla VPN literally _is_ rebranded Mullvad. So if you want to contribute to Mozilla, should be a pretty easy switch for you.

I wonder why it's geoblocked in that case?

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by esperent »

m3kw9 wrote: post #305
DCKing wrote: post #141

Come on Mozilla, hurry up! I want to give you money for goods and services (I also donate monthly [1]), but I'm not that interested in a VPN (I can and do also pay Mullvad). Give me that real internet stuff - email, calendar, file sync, chat(?) - give me Firefox Premium. Bundle in the Lockwise password manager. I'd pay good money to see a company fill the void of paid, privacy first essential internet services and I…

Not sure why I would switch to another chat, email, file, sync just because it’s from Mozilla

Privacy

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by mike_d »

koheripbal wrote: post #127
r3trohack3r wrote: post #111

Every time someone mentions a VPN provider in my techie social circles, the "A VPN doesn't protect you" crowd piles in, usually with links to something like: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29 I don't understand this argument, but would like to. I run https://everytwoyears.org , a political non-profit focused on ending the warrantless metadata collection of U.S. citizens' communications. From every…

I think you are correct that VPNs are a sort of half-solution. There are a lot of people that think anything less than 100% isn't worth your time, so they suggest TOR - but TOR has all sorts of annoying limitations that preclude daily usage. Absolute solutions are seldom worth the 10x extra effort they frequently require. Another set of half-solutions can be seen here which will make you more secure... https://www.cl…

Encrypted SNI is a solution in search of a problem.

Unencryptable metadata (destination IP) makes it pretty worthless. Even on shared services like Cloudflare, things that are of interest for collection are probably paying enough that they get stuck on dedicated IPs. The 4chans of the world that might not be paying still make sense from a provider perspective to move to isolated IPs for DDoS mitigation.

Censoring proxies actually look at SNI to deconflict shared IPs where pornsite.com and travelblog.com are on the same Cloudflare IP, and will just revert to blocking the destination by default.

(I'm picking on Cloudflare here specifically because they are pushing it - but this applies to MaxCDN, Akamai, etc just as much)

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by WealthVsSurvive »

r3trohack3r wrote: post #111

Every time someone mentions a VPN provider in my techie social circles, the "A VPN doesn't protect you" crowd piles in, usually with links to something like: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29 I don't understand this argument, but would like to. I run https://everytwoyears.org , a political non-profit focused on ending the warrantless metadata collection of U.S. citizens' communications. From every…

They are explicitly collecting both the metadata and the content of all communications they are able to. They have burned their own when someone raises a complaint about their methods or dares to introduce crypto that respects constitutionality(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Andrews_Drake).
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