Yes.
Brave
Helium
LibreWolf
Brave
Helium
LibreWolf
I'm not interested in crypto right now, thanks for asking.
I don't have the technical skills or interest in examining if a browser is working for me or working for someone else, and therefore I have to trust the people developing the browser. I don't trust people who associate themselves with crypto, therefore I don't trust the software they write.
But you trust people who associate themselves with and are being directly paid by the biggest privacy invader on the planet?
> Brave
> Helium
> LibreWolf
WaterFox
MullvadBrowserDid brave's attempt to provide an alternative funding model to ads actually go anywhere?
Similar notion of "privacy respecting advertising" has also been stated in mozilla's texts about firefox several times, eg [1], and that goes a long time back in general [2]. I don't think that any of these attempts from brave or firefox have actually worked.
In general, this is the business model (or part thereof) of many/most "privacy focused" services, ie serving ads while "respecting users' privacy". Duckduckgo does that for example. A few of them are even owned by advertising companies (eg startpage). Alternative models are subscriptions (eg kagi) and/or sponsorship/donations (eg ladybird?).
[0] https://brave.com/about/#:~:text=Brave%20Ads,-Brave
[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growt...
[2] "we want to show the world that it is possible to do relevant advertising and content recommendations while still respecting users’ privacy and giving them control over their data" https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/05/21/providi...
Yea; it seems pretty dead as an approach. The ads are the problem. We need alternative models to advertising. It's absolutely baffling how there simply hasn't been any real competition for thirty years.
It hasn't gone away or sold out to Google.
Hey, I wonder if "exactly like Tor minus connecting to the Tor network" exists. No, don't tell me this is just Firefox, that's not true.
And no, you do not need to use Mullvad VPN
It really just is Firefox with more privacy tuning. As far as I'm aware all the add-ons work as expected. I've used it as a trial and can confirm ublock works perfectly fine but that's the only add-on I tested.
Also, it is bundled with a mullvad add-on, but it is easy to remove.
You should also go to the Privacy and Security tab in the browser. By default it is set to Max Protection with Mullvad DNS by default. Even their lowest security is better than Firefox. But I would suggest editing this the "Mullvad (Ad-blocking)" option. I believe this is the same DNS as adblock.dns.mullvad.net (194.242.2.3)[0], which (base.dns.mullvad.net (194.242.2.4) is better) will be pretty similar to PiHole style ad-blocking.
I haven't tested in browser (I did test when setting up my PiHole) but Mullvad DNS can be a little slower compared to quad9 or cloudflare. But I don't think those two have ad blocking (and DNS ad blocking can be better in a lot of ways because it is not being blocked user side)
Btw, you can do this DNS stuff in vanilla Firefox too.
[0] https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls
Wanna comment on this more? I actually couldn't install add-ons on mullvad browser. I go on "extentions and themes", and the search bar isn't there.
(Not sure I wanted any if they help making you more fingerprintabble - but if not, I would like to have firefox containers on mullvad browser.)
- uBlock Origin included
- mullvad extension to force DNS (disabled if you don't grant it permissions)
- button for "new identity" that clears all cookies and restarts
- NoScript included, but some JS permitted.
- Fewer customization options than firefox to resist fingerprinting
- Bucketed/discretized screen size to resist fingerprinting
EDIT: hard facts: https://mullvad.net/en/browser/hard-facts
I use librewolf