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by Player6225 1173 days ago
"The Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in a collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project. It’s designed to minimize tracking and fingerprinting. You could say it’s a Tor Browser to use without the Tor Network."

https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser

So basically like... hardened Firefox?
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medstrom 1173 days ago
A hardened Firefox config exists: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js

But it needs tech skill to adopt, so even if this Mullvad Browser is basically just prepackaged Arkenfox, that's great to drive adoption.

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Player6225 1173 days ago
Hmm looking the settings I saw a search engine I didn't recognize... I guess they also have a google proxy?

https://leta.mullvad.net

So I guess now you can go full Mullvad.

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archb 1173 days ago
This is super interesting. From Leta FAQ[0]:

Did you make your own search engine from scratch?

We did not, we made a front end to the Google Search API.

Our search engine performs the searches on behalf of our users. This means that rather than using Google Search directly, our Leta server makes the requests.

Searching by proxy in other words.

[0]: https://leta.mullvad.net/faq

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