Trivalent seems like the most secure browser for Linux, but I’m wondering how this compares with the current recommended Mullvad Browser (and I suppose FireFox w/ Arkenfox and Brave if anyone is quite knowledgeable). I’m mainly asking as I don’t fully understand the technical differences enough to …

[image] anonymous390: Brave or Trivalent with Startpage Anonymous View Curious, how come Mullvad Browser is not in this recommendation? As for searching, I use SearXNG self-hosted contained within a VPN, or Leta. [image] anon11657877: uBlock Origin advanced mode Good callout, I defin…

Can’t speak for either browser but based on these use cases: Don’t. This is security-sensitive and tied to your actual identity so using any sort of VPN or Tor is useless at best. If it’s not tied to your real IP address or other PII, use a VPN or Tor for this. Fingerprinting doesn’t matter for th…

Trivalent has almost all essential privacy features other than anti-fingerprinting, so you can use that for non-anonymous logins where you already have a fingerprint. If you want anti-fingerprinting for nearly every other usecase, there’s Brave for security and Mullvad Browser with a VPN for strong…

[image] overdrawn98901: Curious, how come Mullvad Browser is not in this recommendation? Advanced fingerprinters aren’t on my threat model so Mullvad Browser isn’t necessary for me. Brave has more security, along with self-hosted AI integration

Trivalent, and consider installing uBlock Origin (Trivalent has blocking build-in by default). Need to see if cookies are deleted by default. Reminder that you can use profiles liberally in Trivalent to keep several configurations around for different use cases. If you want extensions like UBO-l…

[image] anonymous390: Brave or Trivalent with Startpage Anonymous View How does one “use” this in practice? Do you just search for things in StartPage and then click “Visit Anonymous View” for everything or do you have a life hack?

Mullvad Browser’s anti-fingerprinting causes several potentially undesirable side effects, including setting locale to US English, timezone to Iceland and reported screen resolution to unrealistic rounded sizes like 1400x900. This might trigger anti-fraud protections on some websites (eg. banks, fin…

[image] anon11657877: This is security-sensitive and tied to your actual identity so using any sort of VPN or Tor is useless at best. VPN is not always useless for accessing bank or other KYC-ed accounts, especially if your internet connection and home ownership/rental are not tied to your id…

Logging into KYC sites where your identity is already known defeats the purpose of using a VPN. A VPN will only protect you if you created your account through a VPN and have never logged into it through your real IP. Just to be on the safe side, use a separate browser with a different fingerprint a…

VPNs also hide activity from your ISP

VPNs are vulnerable to traffic analysis and website fingerprinting attacks which means your ISP could obtain information about your activity despite the encryption. Mullvad at least mitigates this with DAITA but I don’t think any other provider does.

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