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So, first off, to make it for daily browsing use I did some basic alterations to the browser by allowing it to keep history, caches, cookies, disabling always-on incognito, and so on. I also installed my favorite addons (Dark Reader, Sponsorblock, I try to be as minimalistic in my choices as possible). This of course harms the privacy, but you can just ctrl+shift+p to basically turn all of that shit off when you decide you need to get serious. I kept the letterboxing on, its hard to get used to initially but after about a month of using Mullvad as a daily driver I got used to it. It seems most sites aren't able to detect my alterations to the browser.

I don't think any other privacy browser spin (Librewolf, Waterfox, Brave, Tor Browser etc) comes anywhere close to the snappiness and privacy intersection of Mullvad Browser. I'm able to skirt bans due to using anonymity services trivially and the captchas are short and quick and not a never-ending slug fest. Its good enough at faking a unique identity out of the box that most things cannot tell that its fake. I'm in such love that I'm going to swap away from my current vpn (IVPN, sub should end in November) to Mullvad due to how well polished this project is. I'm really interested if their multihop service can get around VPN IP bans better than Tor can.

Kudos to the Mullvad team ๐Ÿฅ‚ I hope you make an android version soon!

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[โ€“] marcie@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

They have big egos. You need to be sure they're an avid poster and will respond to what you say. There's also the public aspect, they don't like having something awful they've done brought up in a community they like. You can set up a bot to post things like "Hey remember that time you sexually harassed a woman 20 years younger than you and a court ruled against you" as soon as they post an AMA so it'll be the top comment. Reddit really hates when you use bots like this and will likely remove the comment after it gets a lot of attention which further inflames other people against the target.

A lot of this requires practice to get good at heckling. It's all a case by case basis. You should always be aware of your audience and what the audience finds most unacceptable about someone's behavior.

[โ€“] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago

uncritical support