Was doing some research on the mullvad browser. It was made with tor and i’ve heard tor is easily hackable which made me nervous about using it.
Would be interested in hearing feedback from people that use it as a daily driver. Thanks!
What do you mean by easily hackable?
I have been using it everyday with Leta as the search. I use it for almost everything except for when I need to login or it is a site that requires some sort of fingerprint: bank, Reddit, stuff like that. I am not following you when you say the browser is hackable, outside of malicious JS execution which can and does happen in every browser.
What is my favorite part about the Mullvad browser is that it truly randomizes the parts of a browser fingerprint that it can not completely sterilize. For example it changes your viewport size so you don’t give off a fingerprint based on your screen resolution.
It was made with tor and i’ve heard tor is easily hackable
Mullvad browser does not use the Tor network.
I dont now about easily hackable thing but when you check https://privacytests.org/ is doing well. Is firefox with some addons from factory and privacy hardened mullvad change some settings.
I love it. It’s my main browser for everything that doesn’t require to log into an account. Wish they made one for iOS.
Doesn’t seem like you researched very well
I use it all the time. Unless I’m up g a browser for email or banking or… whatever sites I visit and login into regularly. Then it’s LibreWolfe.
Mullvad is fine. The Mullvad browser is a Mozilla build, it’s fine too. As for pricing, a one year scratcher on Amazon is $57.00 U.S., so 12 months worth.
For security and privacy, it’s the way. For accessing media locked to a country, there are other choices, but for what I want it for, it is the best solution.
Fingers crossed they develop a smartphone browser.
I prefer a different VPN. I seem to have connection issues with Mullvad. Waiting to see if those get fixed. And if pricing improves
pricing will stay the same, it’s already pretty reasonable
This is not a limitation of the browser or VPN it is a restriction by most websites. When you login to a website such as Reddit it is going to place cookies in your browser, session, log your IP, region, browsers specs, etc and all of these things create your digital fingerprint.
So with a VPN we take away IP and region (other technical things like DNS and the sort). With the browser we take away the rest of the things. This makes it very hard for websites to distinguish who you are and as such the majority of them will block you from signing in.
A good rule of thumb anyways is if you are signed in to a website, you are not going to have much if any privacy. You will with a VPN have privacy from your ISP snooping on what you are doing.
Just use two browsers and your good judgement. I use Mullvad browser for when I want more privacy or just simply do not trust the website I am visiting. I use Firefox when I need to be logged in to something, such as right now.
Mullvad have their own phone browser?