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Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by ShorsHammer »

ObsoleteNerd wrote: post #291
PhilippGille wrote: post #273

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wasn't there a privacy problem because of the Australian encryption law [1] and the company being based in Australia? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18636076

It’s just as private as Gmail, which is the comparison in question. If you want secure, you wouldn’t be using email in the first place.

Gmail is under US jurisdiction though which provides far more protections depending on circumstance.

I wouldn't consider them equivalent. Australian laws are some of the most intrusive on the planet and are shared amongst the 5/14 eyes without a warrant.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by Beefin »

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…

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by fnord77 »

I would love a VPN that would use a different IP address for each site I visit.

Just to prevent the backend IP address correlation between sites that trackers use.

Technically I know this is probably impossible without tons of virtual NICs

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by nybble41 »

mike_d wrote: post #309
koheripbal wrote: post #127

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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 pro…

> and will just revert to blocking the destination by default

Good. That's way better than being able to tell which site you were trying to go to. It's more expensive for the misbehaving network operators as well; block some popular sites just because they share an IP address with something you want to censor and people are bound to complain, even if they couldn't care less about the censored sites.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by ketamine__ »

julesallen wrote: post #207
fataliss wrote: post #178

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Do you have a good write up on how to get all that setup by any chance? Also, any body has a comparison of Brave vs Firefox when it comes to privacy?

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/07/brave-browser-caugh... I was using Brave until this story came out and switched over to Vivaldi for the stuff that absolutely demands the Blink engine. Point one, if they _repeatedly_ continue to do this kind of thing, what kind of stuff are they also getting away with? Or what's the next big surprise around the corner? The second point is I really no prefer Vivaldi as things…

So you were okay with the Binance widget but not the referral code?

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by mav3rick »

somurzakov wrote: post #164
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…

internet scale email, calendar, password manager, OpenID auth provider, VPN, browser + integrated search via DDG = everybody's dream

The "barely works" stack.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by notriddle »

PureParadigm wrote: post #123
r3trohack3r wrote: post #68

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I see this take a lot. Serious question: doesn't the U.S. government surveillance program focus on collecting communication metadata for U.S. citizens? While it isn't clear what that metadata includes, we do have examples of past programs that have leaked (and the legal theory used to justify them) to guide us. Given what we publicly know about these surveillance programs I could see FISC approving bulk metadata coll…

If I were a government trying to gather metadata about web usage, the first thing I'd do is set up or acquire my own VPN company (and make it look convincing, of course).

I wouldn't.

What percent of the public do you think uses a VPN? And do you think VPN users are a representative sample of the general public?

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by nybble41 »

crazygringo wrote: post #277
ryanlol wrote: post #196

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Tumbling coins has everything to do with money laundering. Of course, the source of the funds isn’t necessarily illicit.

Money laundering is turning dirty money into clean, that appears legitimate, taxable etc. If the source isn't illicit, it isn't laundering because there's nothing to clean. Tumbling coins is just obscuring their origin. The two don't inherently have anything to do with each other. Even if you tumble "dirty" coins, you've got to explain to the IRS the source of income behind the new coins. Tumbling, in and of itself,…

Bitcoins may get a pass because they aren't technically "money", but in general any business that transfers money on behalf of another entity without knowing exactly who both the sender and recipient are—and registering as a money transmission business, a very expensive process—will be considered to be involved in money laundering. Even if the money is provably "clean" to begin with. A company that implemented anything like a "tumbler" for USD would most certainly run afoul of anti-money-laundering regulations.

It's not right, but that's the way the rules are written.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by [deleted] »

godzillabrennus wrote: post #243
lilyball wrote: post #173

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How about FastMail? They have a stellar email service. They also offer contacts and calendars, though I don't personally use those (I use iCloud for that).

I’ve used Fastmail for years now on a work account. It’s best feature is that it’s not Google. First, no phone support. Hardly acceptable when even Google has this. Second, no collaboration suite like Drive/Docs. Third, no addons I’m accustomed to having in my daily driver email suite. Things I miss include schedule to send later, default reply all, and no priority inbox. Im stuck using Google for email and maps. I h…

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Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by mikedilger »

I don't use a VPN as I'm pretty sure my traffic identifies me once it pops out the other end. But I do tunnel DNS with a server I trust so that my ISP only ends up seeing encrypted traffic (DNS over ssh, and HTTPS). I don't do DoH because there are only a few providers and so those are hotspots for espionage.
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