Mullvad Privacy Companion is now open source
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Mullvad Privacy Companion is now open source
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Re: Mullvad Privacy Companion is now open source
#2I have good opinions of Mullvad but I could not find what does it offer that other similar extensions do not?
Also, seems like so many privacy-advocating companies are releasing these kind of browser extensions - all doing similar things - while preventing fingerprinting without compromising user experience is still quite difficult.
Re: Mullvad Privacy Companion is now open source
#3I have good opinions of Mullvad but I could not find what does it offer that other similar extensions do not? Also, seems like so many privacy-advocating companies are releasing these kind of browser extensions - all doing similar things - while preventing fingerprinting without compromising user experience is still quite difficult.
I think you answered your own question. They are going after easier low hanging fruit that keeps them on par with other services.
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#4Just stating here that you'll almost never find Mullvad on a list of top vpns solely due to the fact that all of the top vpns are owned by the same company masquerading as separate ones and pays for all of those lists.
Thanks for open sourcing it.
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#5I'm hopeful that open-sourcing this is the beginning of an internal initiative to start promoting, improving and adding to this product, rather an an internal initiative to offload development to the community and abandon.
As it stands right now, it doesn't do a huge amount - there are much more popular & well-maintained add-ons out there that do this, and the add-on recommendations it makes are narrow and overly prescriptive (e.g. pushing Privacy Badger when you're already using more general overlapping solutions like uBlock).
Mullvad's a great company with a lot of community respect so a "well crafted" add-on of this nature coming from them could have a lot of potential.
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#6Just stating here that you'll almost never find Mullvad on a list of top vpns solely due to the fact that all of the top vpns are owned by the same company masquerading as separate ones and pays for all of those lists. Thanks for open sourcing it.
Tbh, I think the main reason you never see Mullvad on those lists is that they're targetted at people who want to watch region-restricted TV series.
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#7Offering anything promising privacy or security that is not open source is just a joke. So this is absolute minimum step. Unfortunately even the IT industry does not widely understand that, how would laymen do?
Re: Mullvad Privacy Companion is now open source
#8Just stating here that you'll almost never find Mullvad on a list of top vpns solely due to the fact that all of the top vpns are owned by the same company masquerading as separate ones and pays for all of those lists. Thanks for open sourcing it.
Tbh, I think the main reason you never see Mullvad on those lists is that they're targetted at people who want to watch region-restricted TV series.
They also don't have an affiliate program, so there isn't monetary incentive for websites to promote it.
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#9Just stating here that you'll almost never find Mullvad on a list of top vpns solely due to the fact that all of the top vpns are owned by the same company masquerading as separate ones and pays for all of those lists. Thanks for open sourcing it.
Tbh, I think the main reason you never see Mullvad on those lists is that they're targetted at people who want to watch region-restricted TV series.
To be clear, you're saying that most other VPNs are targeting that audience, not mullvad, right?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tbh, I think the main reason you never see Mullvad on those lists is that they're targetted at people who want to watch region-restricted TV series.
To be clear, you're saying that most other VPNs are targeting that audience, not mullvad, right?
(That's what I'm reading)