This ^

If you have 2 accounts on a website for example, you can be easily exposed if using a niche VPN. If on a more popular VPN, it’s not as likely as some other users probably use those as well

Realistically, on bigger websites it doesn’t matter as much - it would really depend on your config. You’re bound to be fingerprinted at some point anyways. It’s just too hard and too annoying to blend in.

At this point I believe we should just aim at randomizing our fingerprint every few seconds by sending BS rather than aiming to all have the same one

The hate is mainly because they run current anti consumer techniques, such as:

• infinite fake sales (illegal is most countries)
• misleading fear mongering (VPNs don’t bring much security at all, and aren’t the only tool you need to achieve anonymity at all. Most people don’t need a VPN.) but this has some positive impacts: normies use VPNs so they become more accepted
• ultra aggressive misleading marketing: occasionally, false claims are made through sponsorships

They are also in a country where they can legally not provide any info to anyone (also in case of legal problem I believe), but it is a double edged sword, as it also means they can lie and sell our info and will never get sued over it

Such things makes it hard to trust, but the reality is they’re most likely fine to use because they already make a ton of money. They probably won’t risk to lose a business over this.

Compared to other options like mainstream VPNs and proton, they don’t have much servers, so, users

I’ll add that their servers are a bit slow (I have a gigabit connection) and they don’t have a server in my country

Interesting option as well, but some problems :

• Not audited iirc
• Port forwarding leads to identification of the individual account, and facts about this aren’t really explained. They admitted than in case they receive a legal order against someone who has port forwarding, they must give the identity because they can get it.
  • Sure, changing ports frequently is a way around this but meh, I’d like to know what they will provide if that happens

Going to get hate for it (justified), but NordVPN

Reasons: low price, and someone I know already had an account.

Could switch but most VPNs don’t have what I’m looking for (port forwarding), as well as IPs that often change and a solid userbase to mask traffic in smaller websites

Tested mullvad a few years ago and had some small connection problems, but the main issue was that it wasn’t usable in many websites due to their IPs being really abused (+ blocked from streaming services).

That’s not port forwarding though 🤔 but still a nice thing to have I guess

They’re not the very opposite. They have done wrong things, just like Mozilla. Doesn’t make them Google though.

Sadly, using small niche VPNs that might be more trusted makes you stand out more. It’s pretty unusual to have a Mullvad user on your server

They don’t rotate IPs as well so a lot of them are blacklisted… and don’t offer port forwarding anymore

I wish they could change IPs reguarly and add port forwarding back :-( - I would happily pay for their service again

Because 5€ for their current service is overpriced

I agree, Mozilla currently sucks (plays in both sides) and needs change

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ugnOM2mzgNU

This video sums it up well (at about 2/3rds of the video)

I think you’re the only one talking about fascism here, bud

If you meant innovating ways to get your data, then yea

How is this false then? I don’t get it

Won’t give my money to these greedy people

Didn’t get the second part, wdym?

And what percentage of Mozilla’s income goes towards Firefox?

Mozilla sucks as much as Wikipedia when it comes to funding

Nice :)

And I have to change my OS settings because modifying the theme in libreoffice’s settings doesn’t work (Linux) 😵

I’ve had many bugs with it (like dark theme that seems completely broken)