[a-dub]

hm. interesting. could be an interesting feature for the mozilla vpn. rather than just redirecting all traffic to a clean pipe, redirect it into a special networking environment where tracking endpoints are mocked up to be benign.

even better would be if users could also analyze their own traffic, block suspicious things and contribute to the mock environment for firewalling personal data.

maybe the future of firewalls will be more about keeping user data in, rather than keeping malicious actors out...

[userbinator]

even better would be if users could also analyze their own traffic, block suspicious things and contribute to the mock environment for firewalling personal data.

That's basically a MITM proxy --- and I've been running one for decades now, to adjust pages and block (as well as inject) content. But if Mozilla tries to do that with its VPN, the paranoia-spreading "security" industry (and we all know whose interests they really protect...) is going to roast them for it.

[a-dub]

why? because it would cut into sales for local firewall style products? i always assumed most of the money in that world was in enterprise software, services and labor.

i don't think the personal tools for this are all that great anyhow and tools that would allow consumers to monitor their own devices and use oss tools for defeating software that doesn't serve them could very well be a hit.

what's the alternative? a closed platform like apple? there's gotta be a middle ground between having to run your own monitoring infra and handing the reins over for everything to a company like apple.