Trivalent & Mullvad Browser: privacy comparison

[anonymous390]

@Privium

A VPN will only protect you if you created your account through a VPN and have never logged into it through your real IP

Or if they use blind signatures to prevent correlation, like Nym does. Even if a VPN doesn’t use blind signatures, it’s not very likely for lower threat models that a reputable, PG recommended VPN will try to go after you with your IP address

@Smee

So it might be a good idea to take your browsers through some fingerprinting tests

Those tests aren’t accurate

Testing the fingerprintablility of a few different browsers in a few different standard configurations

btw, it is not an accurate metric to measure fingerprinting The Panopticlick study done by the EFF uses the Shannon entropy - the number of identifying bits of information encoded in browser properties - as this metric. Their result data is definitely useful, and the metric is probably the appropriate one for determining how identifying a particular browser property is. However, some quirks of their study means that they do not extract as much information as they could from display information…