Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Jitsi Meet

#Communication #Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging 141 social mentions

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Outline by Alphabet

It's not just that they're suspect or unreliable. They're complete bullshit. The actual use of VPN technology is to create virtual private networks (hence the name). It's a low level technology (works at the system level). There are several types of network topologies you can set up, when I was learning about this I found this article which is quite nice: https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2020/10/wireguard-topologies. You <i>can</i> proxy traffic through a VPN, but the only scenario I can think of in which it makes sense is if you are an OSINT researcher and you need a safe dedicated system on which to conduct your research. If you need to <i>proxy</i> traffic and "hide" your IP, just use a flipping proxy. It's a high level technology (works at the application level - e.g. For torrenting, every torrent client under the sun supports a SOCKS5 proxy). If you don't have the time to set up a VPS yourself, you can even use something like Outline (https://getoutline.org) which automates that (and it has a mobile client app as well).

#VPN #Security #Cloud VPN 64 social mentions

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Mullvad

Mulvad seems to be very reliable. https://mullvad.net/en/.

#VPN #Security #Cloud VPN 86 social mentions

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Cover Your Tracks

There are better browsers than Firefox if you care about privacy. Both Brave and Tor have better results in this comparison that was shared here recently: https://privacytests.org/, same in this tool from the EFF https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ also shows better results for Brave than Firefox (even with blockers installed on my Firefox). Multi-account containers are really the only killer feature in Firefox for me, they're super convenient for work, but that's about the only thing it has left going for it.

#Security & Privacy #Tool #Software Marketplace 251 social mentions