cross-posted from: https://monero.town/post/422188
The Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in collaboration with Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project. It aims to eliminate data collection and provide user-centric browsing services, ensuring online activity remains private and secure. The browser has the same fingerprinting protection as the Tor Browser, but connects to the internet without Tor Network or VPN instead. The Mullvad Browser provides anti-fingerprinting protections.
The idea is to provide one more alternative – beside the Tor Network – to browse the internet with more privacy. To get as many people as possible to fight the big data gathering of today. To free the internet from mass surveillance.
Here: >> mullvad browser official <<
First question I had was what it was based on. Based on the FAQ answer of default outgoing connections, it would seem to be Firefox (has two connections to Mozilla for script and domain updates).
You got me interested about this browser ! When I first saw the news I assumed it would just be another chromium based privacy browser, i did not even bother looking into it
I was wrong?
Is it any faster than tor?
When I used TOR I just assumed it was slow because my laptop will be old enough to legally gamble in a couple years…
I hope you know the concept of Tor and why it can appear to be slow: Tor is routing the internet-connection through multiple instances of the TorNetwork to hide your actual physical location. That’s strong anonymity technique and Tor users usually do not worry about if it’s slower.
Actually really excited for this - can’t wait to kick the wheels on it.
Mullvad - this 👍. But also Mullvad, blocking port forwarding 😒.
Yeah the Mullvad-VPN recently stopped port-forwarding. But this Browser is not a VPN product. Just use it without VPN or use an other VPN provider, if you want.
On that note, does anyone know a good VPN with port forwarding for torrenting?
Sorry I’m not savy in VPN. What’s port forwarding and why do people want that feature?
I’d be interested to know what programs actually use port forwarding. I’m guessing quite a lot but you never know which need it until they don’t work.
If you’re doing a peer-to-peer (P2P) related activity, port forwarding is very important for improving speed or enabling the service at all. That’s because your router blocks incoming traffic from certain ports by default, ports that are used for a P2P connection. To get around this, you can ‘forward’ the specific port that is used for the P2P activity you’re using, letting your router know that the traffic you expect to see from a specific port is good to let through.
You can simply leave port forwarding to your personal router, but if you want to stay anonymous while participating in P2P connections, then you’ll want to use a VPN service. If a VPN service doesn’t utilize port forwarding, then any P2P connections you use will either be straight up impossible, or very slow over the VPN. The P2P service you’re attempting to use needs to access a specific port on the VPN’s router, which needs forwarding to work properly. For example, you wanted to host a gaming server without giving away your actual IP address, then a VPN with port forwarding is desirable. The same can be said for torrenting.
TL;DR: VPNS with port forwarding matter if you want to stay anonymous while using P2P services.
Mullvad means mole in Swedish. Like the digging animal. Also like “we have a mole working on the inside.”
Feels like a rubbish name for anything oriented towards privacy.
It’s called that because moles are a tunnelling animal… Like a VPN tunnel…
They’ve been an extremely reputable “record-less” VPN for multiple years now.
