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  • Mozilla VPN Thoughts

    From Revvie Quar@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 21 00:51:36 2021
    I'm giving it a shot, and so far, so good. Flat $4.99/month with no
    long-term or yearly discount-type contract.

    Pros:

    - Little, if any, reduction in download/upload speeds.
    - IPv6 support.
    - Doesn't leak DNS requests (as far as I can tell).
    - A person has a decent number of servers/countries from which to choose.
    - A person can quit/delete account at any time.

    Cons:

    - GRC's Shields Up! shows that most IPv4 ports are only closed, not "stealthed".
    - Amazon Prime videos won't play with the VPN enabled (along with a few
    others which I don't have). Oh well....

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    Revvie Quar

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Martin_Mich=c3=a1lek?=@21:1/5 to Revvie Quar via support-firefox on Mon Mar 22 11:08:19 2021
    Isn't Mozilla VPN just rebranding of another one(I don't remember the
    name)? Also VPNs aren't much helpful for privacy in general.

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 22 12:29:42 2021
    Martin Mich�lek wrote:

    Isn't Mozilla VPN just rebranding of another one(I don't remember the
    name)? Also VPNs aren't much helpful for privacy in general.

    Isn't it based on wireguard, which has just been removed from pfSense
    ant netBSD for, as yet, undisclosed reasons?

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  • From obelar@21:1/5 to =?UTF-8?Q?Martin_Mich=c3=a1lek?= on Mon Mar 22 10:13:22 2021
    On 3/22/2021 6:08 AM, Martin Michálek wrote:
    Isn't Mozilla VPN just rebranding of another one(I don't remember the
    name)? Also VPNs aren't much helpful for privacy in general.


    Its built on Mullvad and yeah it isn't hiding you entirely, but its a
    good step. Just make sure your browser isn't leaking your IP.

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  • From Revvie Quar@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 22 13:43:47 2021
    On 3/22/2021 5:08, Martin Mich�lek wrote:
    Isn't Mozilla VPN just rebranding of another one(I don't remember the
    name)? Also VPNs aren't much helpful for privacy in general.

    Sites like WhatIsMyIP show that my ISP is Tzulo, for what it's worth for
    both IPv4 and IPv6.

    As to your question, I know not.

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  • From Revvie Quar@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 22 15:03:11 2021
    On 3/22/2021 5:08, Martin Mich�lek wrote:
    Isn't Mozilla VPN just rebranding of another one(I don't remember the
    name)? Also VPNs aren't much helpful for privacy in general.

    When I run DUMo, I get a needed tunnel update for an outfit called
    WireGuard. Is that the one to which you refer?

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