this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2023
53 points (98.2% liked)
Privacy
31982 readers
370 users here now
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
Related communities
Chat rooms
-
[Matrix/Element]Dead
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Tor browser? Librewolf? Ungoogled Chromium?
So we're trusting Tor but not Mullvad who collaborated with the Tor Project [0] to create this browser?
Who's behind Librewolf and Ungoogled Chromium that we should trust them over Mullvad?
Even Librewolf recommends you use Tor [1].
They're all open source projects, how do you define who should/shouldn't be trusted? Seems rather reactionary to discredit Mullvad without any evidence when the alternatives provided suffer the same issue - who's behind the project and how do you establish trust?
Lastly, Ungoogled Chromium provides almost no privacy enhancing features by default [2], so how could this be a recommended as a privacy preserving browser?
Lets discuss real alternatives and real issues, not jump to conclusions and throw everything out because it's not "perfect"
"Don't let perfect be the enemy of good" and all that.
[0] https://mullvad.net/en/browser
[1] https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#can-i-use-librewolf-with-tor
[2] https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium#objectives
Did I say I trust Tor? I made an entire rant about it.
@KLISHDFSDF @HiddenLayer5 I recommend librewolf, arkenfox with firefox, a hardened palemoon, brave browser, ungoogled chromium or maybe a browser without JS entirely... Suckless surf for example xD
@HiddenLayer5 @KLISHDFSDF Librewolf and ungoogled chromium and brave those are the 3 browsers I use as daily drivers for different things