Hello, how good privacy wise is it to use dark reader on mullvad browser? Does it do anything with fingerprintings?

The answer is on the website: [image] Browser Extensions - Privacy Guides These browser extensions can enhance your browsing experience and protect your privacy.

[Screenshot_20240818-013347] Hope i’m not derailing the conversation too much, but what about a built-in browser option like the “apply dark themes to sites” in vanadium. Does that make you more fingerprintable as well or would that be a viable alternative?

It splits Vanadium users into two groups, ones who have that setting set to dark mode and light mode. But because it’s built into the browser there’s a lot more users that look the same. Vs dark reader which will always be a much smaller subset of users and allows for a lot of customization as well. …

I assume you have made changes to the default flags? Stick to the defaults if you dont want to stand out goes for everything.

Oh, you are absolutely right, i did and forgot about it. Disabled it again. Thanks for the hint and sorry for the confusion

[image] ph00lt0: The answer is on the website: It’s not very helpful to say “don’t install extensions” because a lot of extensions do not make you fingerprintable. Like for example an extension that deletes your browser history on startup or that an extension that exports the URLs from your o…

Dark Reader extension or using dark mode indeed increase your fingerprinting. Because it changes and modifying the UI. That’s why Mullvad browser or librewolf set it light mode. There is a difference btw dark reader and dark mode. Dark reader makes you more fingerprintable than dark mode since it is…

Any extension interferering with the DOM or network, could potentially be adding fingerprintability. I am not aware of addons that add anhthing useful who do not do this. Even if they do exist it does add attack factor. For people so concerned about fingerprinting this most likely is a risk too. Th…

[image] ph00lt0: I am not aware of addons that add anything useful who do not do this. The Mullvad Browser extension would be one example (according to Mullvad) but its an exception to the rule. From their FAQ : Can I install other extensions? Yes, but that is something we don’t recommend…

Fair but that is preinstalled with the browser. I would not recommend installing that extension in another firefox browser either.

If removing the pre-installed extension doesn’t alter your browser fingerprint. I’d assume that adding that same extension to a browser also shouldn’t affect your browser fingerprint. That’s an unconfirmed assumption on my part, but it seems logical. Generally speaking, I agree with the mindset of …

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I’m not aware, but we have a plan to add this to Mullvad Browser at some point in the future, we’re just limited by our current resources.

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