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Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by mynegation »

campl3r wrote: post #419
mynegation wrote: post #320

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And most importantly: 0) Get your own domain and set up MX record to fastmail servers This way if you ever migrate again, you will not need to do it all over again. One word of advice - keep your registrar login and emails associated with the domains _not_ on your domain, otherwise it is going to present a problem should you ever need to fix anything related to domains.

And keep addresses, phone numbers, alternative emails, payment details up to date with your domain registrar. Recently my provider decided to randomly cancel my domain, getting it back from transfer with everything out of date was painful.

That is a great advice. One of the registrars has been sending verification messages for one of my oldest domains to the mail account that I do not use anymore and one day they stopped serving DNS for it. I had an access to the old mail account still but if I had not, that would have been an arduous process indeed!

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by mynegation »

ximeng wrote: post #451
zrobotics wrote: post #367

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OK, I think the other reply missed your question (if I am reading this correctly). Basically, if you register your domain through namecheap, then after setting up email at *@ximeng.net, don't update your email address to be namecheap@ximeng.net when changing the rest of your accounts. Reason being, if for some reason there is a problem with the domain, you don't want your only means of fixing that problem to potentia…

Right, that is what I meant - you’re then pushing the risk to the management of that secondary protonmail or gmail account. So you basically always rely on a third party to manage the registrar account.

Oh I see. I agree that it is a risk, so - in the vein of another advice in this thread - if you have a co cern about third party email provider, update your domain records to another provider.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by julesallen »

ketamine__ wrote: post #355
julesallen wrote: post #207

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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?

Not OK with any of that crap which is why Firefox + uMatrix is the daily driver.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

>guided by our Data Privacy Principles //

A cunning way of not starting any rules used for the VPN.

Then they can say "well we were guided by our policy when we secretly kept all your connection details and gave them to a marketing company".

How about being guided by your policies on openness and state precisely and fully how data is used/stored/shared.

Isn't privacy the/a principle feature of a VPN?

The irony of only being able to sign up from outside the USA of you use a VPN is not lost on me.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by bluedays »

r3trohack3r wrote: post #490
bluedays wrote: post #489

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Browser fingerprinting means you can more or less be identified regardless of your IP address. Since tracking is more or less tied to the browser should you not use the VPN in some instance the browser fingerprint remains the same. So all the Facebook/Google tracking will be able to determine who you are after you change your IP.

Yup. But it isn't clear to me whether that tracking information would be considered "content" (and require a warrant) or "metadata" and be subject to mass warrantless data collection. Do you have thoughts?

I don't know. Probably better to ask a lawyer something like this.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by monocularvision »

lilyball wrote: post #173
typon wrote: post #147

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Only Mozilla can make me pay for Google services like Email/Calendar etc. I think I subconsciously trust the brand more than most internet companies out there.

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 mention this whenever FastMail comes up: it is way too expensive to equip my family of 6. Give me a sanely priced family plan and I am in.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by gpanders »

AnonC wrote: post #392
metrokoi wrote: post #312

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I don't think it's a good idea to give any company a monopoly on your data even if you trust them.

Why would it be a monopoly? If you use something that uses open standards and provides ways to export or backup your data, you can move anytime. Taken a little deeper, your statement would imply that people should build and maintain their own data centers and host all services by themselves (this argument could be stretched even further).

> Taken a little deeper, your statement would imply that people should build and maintain their own data centers and host all services by themselves

One doesn't need a data center to host these kinds of services. Nextcloud on a Raspberry Pi works just fine.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by Skunkleton »

n1try wrote: post #426
Skunkleton wrote: post #230

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I have my own unbound running on a VPS. My network intercepts all port 53 traffic, filters out ad servers, and then forwards over wireguard to my VPS. I should probably enable DoH as well. I'm feeling kind of lazy about it though.

I think ceasing to use your ISP provider's unencrypted DNS services will already bring quite some boost in privacy for the average internet user. That's why I recently switched to using DNSCrypt ( https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy ) with one of the public providers listed here: https://dnscrypt.info/public-servers (pick one run by some university or internet activism organization).

It also brings an increase in recaptcha puzzles lol

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by pixxel »

mulmen wrote: post #250

This is a hard pass from me. Mozilla controls my browser. I have no interest in giving them control over any other part of my online life. I like how Mozilla is run and hope other organizations emulate them to provide these other essential services.

Couldn’t agree more. Often I see people wishing for Mozilla to add more services. Please just do one complicated thing really well, Mozilla!

I guess all these additional services help lure more users to Firefox, so there’s that.

Maybe Mozilla can eventually generate enough revenue to stop nuzzling on Google’s money teat.

I think I just convinced myself that additional services are good overall for Mozilla. But yes, I’m firmly in the spread your online presence wide camp.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by deadbunny »

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #495
cbsks wrote: post #345

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Fastmail does support the CalDAV standard, but calendly does not: https://help.calendly.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/245299227... That’s entirely calendly’s fault.

I _completely_ agree with you - but it leaves me in the same spot either way as I've yet to find a Calendly competitor that will work with CalDAV. An open spec is great, but it has to be adopted to be used.

Perhaps you could raise a feature request with Calendly?
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