• DaruksRevenge@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    I went from Chrome to FireFox back to Chrome and now to Brave. Brave has actually made me miss Firefox a bit. I’m going to stick with Brave a bit though, I like the Tor functionality and the Wallet function feels useless. I’m not too sure how secure having a copy of your COLD Wallet is on your browser. Additionally, I’ve been looking into Nord VPN that I also completely passed over the integrated VPN functionality as well.

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      1 year ago

      That’s like the worst ways to do what you want to do

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        1 year ago

        What would you recommend then? I got sold on the privacy branding on Brave. But if it is useless and proven so, then I might as well migrate back to Firefox

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          1 year ago

          It’s hard to recommend anything to be honest, but personally I gravitate to Firefox with a bunch of privacy extension. Everything is opensource and everything is as non-controversial as it gets this days.
          For vpn I installed my own on vps. I understand that it might sound a bit intimidating, but seriously you just follow instructions and everything works. But I use vpn to access stuff that is unaccessible in my country, it’s not really a solution for privacy or safety, despite what an ad might tell you. And if you use it to get a little safety it might provide, using some huge company’s solution is kind of defies the purpose

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            1 year ago

            Using a vpn on a VPS kills the use for using the vpn for privacy, and, to a degree, anonymity. You do not share the IP with anyone so you are still trackable while using your vpn.

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              1 year ago

              Depends on whom do you want to hide from. If you just don’t want to have your porn history being sold by your local ISP or whatever, it’s perfectly fine. If you want to be completely anonymous, VPN is the wrong tool for that, doesn’t matter who has your logs, your ISP or your VPN company.

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            1 year ago

            I used to have my own VPN set up. Had a massive power surge and took out my RPi running PiVPN. When I have time, I plan on re-setting it up again.

            My main reason for VPN is as I have been researching Crypto more and I had read that you needed a VPN to interact with the DeFi Network.

            I might go back to FireFox depending. I’m also trying to dedicate Chrome exclusively for use with my job and having either FF, or in this case, Brave for everything else I do.

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              1 year ago

              Having VPN server on your own home network doesn’t achieve anything. Like, nothing at all.

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                  1 year ago

                  To be honest, I struggle to come up with the usecause in this scenario. You are on the same network as your server, the fact that you also create vpn with it doesn’t do anything. Maybe if you want to consolidate the traffic from different machines, I don’t know, but everything I can think of that might require that will not be fulled by the vpn

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                    @Nalivai

                    @daruksrevenge

                    It still makes the data of the local network your on more secure.

                    I.e. using your phone on public wifi at Starbucks, your data is encrypted and obfuscated so anybody on the public wifi can’t see your data.

                    Yeah your traffic still looks like it’s coming from your home network but it’s a free and secure way to protect yourself on other networks.

                    Plus like others have said it’s handy to have access to your home network at times.

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                    1 year ago

                    What I have mainly used it for is when I’m not in the same location as my network and I need something from it. Like a Cloud so to speak. To VPN in, grab it, and done.

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          1 year ago

          @daruksrevenge

          @Nalivai

          Not an expert, but Firefox with the duckduckgo extension does alright.

          It’ll try and block most trackers and data collection, let’s you know what it’s not able to block, and gives you a simple letter grade to tell you how data safe the site your on is.

          They also have a browser app for android.

          Also no browser or VPN will keep you truly safe if you post personal or identifiable info into a site while using the VPN or browser it’ll all get vacuumed up.

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        1 year ago

        I didn’t plan on it, as the research I did on the Brave VPN did not sit too well with me. Nord I have heard of, Mulvad is new to me. I know all too well about Free VPNs and the damage they could actually end up doing.

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      1 year ago

      As you’re already familiar with chrome try Vivaldi, it’s built on a fork of the chrome engine so it will handle all Chrome’s bits and pieces but it was created by Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, who was one of the guys that built and founded Opera back in the day but jumped ship before it got sold out to a Chinese consortium, so not only does it come from the gold standard of pushing the browser envelope from Opera but also von Tetzchner’s vehement stance on privacy which has always been a huge part of his ethos.

      So if you’re after a browser that comes stacked with features like speed dial, mouse gestures, password vault, collapsible side bar (so everything isn’t mooshed into the top bar) to name just a few (I’d literally be typing all day otherwise), as well as an iron clad focus on privacy that isn’t just for show (have a look into von Tetzchner and read some of his blogs and you’ll see) then I highly recommend Vivaldi.