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LWD, to privacy in Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox

Apple: opens its wallet

LWD, to privacy in How private is Apple's Private Relay, really?

But in the case of iVPN, do they run both of the servers themselves? That’s always what I wondered about.

LWD, to privacy in How private is Apple's Private Relay, really?

After reading their documentation a little closer, I discovered something else unsavory about Private Relay: it “relays” your approximate location, as it could usually be derived from your IP address.

Updated my comment.

LWD, to privacy in Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone

Apple: innovating, despite their best efforts

LWD, to privacy in "Cars are the worst product for privacy" | Hope this will reach the normie consumer!

From metadata alone, you could identify somebody at a strip club on Friday, a church on Sunday, and an STD clinic on Tuesday

LWD, (edited ) to privacy in How private is Apple's Private Relay, really?

A less private Tor or a hyper VPN.

A bit less private because things are going through one fewer hop, in addition to having to sign up. In my experience with Invisiv, it’s much faster and more reliable than Tor, but slower and much less stable than a traditional VPN.

It would be cool if more commercial VPN companies adopted this kind of tech.

LWD, to privacy in Why do you think they don't show Brave here?

I prefer Firefox(forks) but would also like to know what they’re talking about.

LWD, to privacy in Why do you think they don't show Brave here?

I am absolutely aghast that Firefox would say Firefox is the best web browser. Their chart is, however, open to external audit so it is entirely unimpeachable.

(This is a parody of people who were arguing in favor of an “independent” browser privacy website run by someone paid by one of the browser companies)

LWD, to privacy in Mullvad uses Gmail

They oughta say who though.

LWD, to privacy in Mullvad uses Gmail

It’s because of the difference in credentials. One is a website positing as having both privacy and cryptocurrency investment advice services, and the other is a random Lemur

LWD, to privacy in Mullvad uses Gmail

I’ve trash talked this website before in my head, but maybe I was approaching it as a professional organization instead of more of a blog run by a small group of people.

They aren’t just doing ads dude, it’s a for-profit propaganda machine.

But seriously, Mullvad would do well to switch out their email provider to something that’s not Google. Even though email is inherently unsafe, email through Google is pretty much is unsafe as it can get.

LWD, to privacy in Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone

How I hope you are right

LWD, to privacy in Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites

Both points are a bit BS.

Strict mode is used by roughly 0.5% of Brave’s users

Based exclusively on whether a user had not gone through the Brave’s browser settings and disabled the “Send statistics about my behavior to the Brave corporate HQ” flag.

In other words, the number is useless.

This low percentage actually makes these users more vulnerable to fingerprinting despite them using the more aggressive blocker, because they constitute a discernible subset of users standing out from the rest.

This argument could be used to tell people to avoid using the Brave browser too. After all, only a minority of people do. The best way to blend in would be to use Google Chrome on Windows 11, and improve no privacy settings.

Unless someone wants to argue that using Brave makes you an acceptable degree of unique, but using advanced tracking blocking makes you unacceptably unique.

LWD, to privacy in Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites

Probably because LibreWolf is most of the way there, and the Mullvad branding + proprietary VPN is more than a bit much. I use(d) the VPN alongside it and found the add-on “hints” regarding the correct DNS settings more frustrating than helpful, too.

LWD, to privacy in VPS suggestions?

I’m guessing they want to cover their butt in case their server is used for something illicit. But even in searching for something as locked down as, say, a Minecraft server, I ran into the same issue.

It’s strange, because generally you can use a fake identity and a masked card to purchase… just about anything, really.

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