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 <<
Cool, but why though? Firefox + Mullvad VPN already ensures all the privacy I want and more.
Depends on your needs. Honestly, you can possibly beat (or at least equal) this level of privacy by using Firefox with the Arkenfox user.js and a couple add-ons (uBlock Origin, for one). This is what I do.
Out of the box, though, Mullvad Browser is going to be more private and more hardened than plain, untouched Firefox. This means users can achieve much better privacy with no more effort than downloading the browser. For someone who doesn’t want to do any tinkering, this is a great option. Mullvad Browser also has a portable version, which is cool.
The advantages of Firefox + Arkenfox over this are more customizability and faster updates (meaning you get security patches sooner).
I am new to this whole privacy topic, what do you think about icedraven and librewolf?
Same deal as Mullvad. Librewolf is just a fork of Firefox with the Arkenfox user.js already incorporated. It’s super convenient, and it will get updates a bit slower than vanilla Firefox because the devs have to wait for Firefox to release their update and then patch Librewolf. It’s a great option, though. I have a spare PC I use for certain tasks and I don’t do much upkeep or browsing on it, so I use Librewolf there to avoid the hassle of remembering to update my user.js and all that junk. It does a great job balancing ease of use and privacy/security hardening, though I’ll probably switch to Mullvad Browser at some point soon.
Iceraven is basically just vanilla Firefox. There’s a couple small differences and it (probably) doesn’t send telemetry back to Mozilla, but otherwise, you’re not really getting much of a privacy benefit from using it and updates are slower than stock. The only beneficial thing is that the about:config section is available, but I think that’s the case with Firefox Nightly, too (though I might be mistaken).
Mull is another fork that uses the arkenfox profile on mobile, which is really cool, but as of right now, Firefox doesn’t offer proper site isolation on Android and isn’t the most private option, unfortunately. As much as I dislike Brave for personal reasons, it’s probably the best Android browser option today after a few settings tweaks. At least until Mozilla finally gets site isolation going on Android.
VPNs don’t address fingerprinting.
Correct, which is why I use Firefox.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/block-fingerprinting/
Mullvad Browser is especially privacy enhanced. You can compare both by just doing a Fingerprint Test:
VPN does not give you strong privacy if you just use your standard web Browser!
