Join us 2025-11-14T22:00:00Z for This Week in Privacy #27, to catch up on the latest Privacy Guides updates and to discuss trending news in the privacy space.
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Hey!
From what I understood, I can ask pretty much any kind of question here? Even if it’s personal or unrelated to the weekly news? Okay so here I come.
Given the VPN recommendations that we do have on our website, is it feasible to have some split tunneling in the case of a household-wide VPN?
Let’s say I do have an OpenWRT with a Wireguard setup from one of those providers.
I do connect to the router via Wifi, could I somehow still be able to select a specific subset of devices and allow them access to some websites without going through the VPN?
I don’t feel like disabling my wifi and accessing them with 5G is the way to go…
When Mozilla talked about plans to invest their time and development resources in improving privacy-preserving ad-click-measurement tech the backlash on social forums was immense. Do you feel they are justified in doing that, if it also means they can be more aggressive with rolling out privacy improvements in the browser?
(For context, see Brave Ads & Brave Shields or Apple’s PCM [private click measurement] and ITP [intelligent tracking prevention]) some of this may be out of date, the Safari documentation on Apple’s website seems to be dated November 2019
Also, what is the general feeing on the best example of a “private browser” and what standard should the various browser vendors be aiming for? Without thinking too much about it I would assume the common answer is Mullvad Browser + a popular network privacy tool. But what about the usability gap (in terms of websites and website features breaking) to browsers like Brave, Safari and Firefox? To put it another way, how much of https://privacytests.org/ should a mainstream browser pass (in comparison to Tor/Mullvad) before you would be comfortable telling a friend or family member that it is a “private browser”, or have they already passed that standard in your view? Should something like profiles/containers and per-container VPNs be a mainstream goal or is it mainly just for power users? (this is a power user feature on Firefox, but on Safari (iCloud+ subscribers) or Psylo regular users get that functionality for free just by using private tabs)
