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by gitgud 2153 days ago
So it's a browser within your browser running on a remote machine somewhere?

At first glance it seems needlessly complicated, but modern browser finger-printing is also incredibly complex. So this might be better than a VPN... As both the IP and the browser are proxied

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With https over VPN, at least the vpn provider cannot inspect the contents of your traffic. With a browser running on a remote machine, whoever controlls that machine can. This is better than VPN only in a scenario when you either controll that machine or fully trust the provider
I assumed it was more for security than privacy. Run the Javascript remotely so your own machine will be (or at least, is more likely to be) be protected from zero-days.