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I went from Chrome to FireFox back to Chrome and now to Brave. Brave has actually made me miss Firefox a bit. I'm going to stick with Brave a bit though, I like the Tor functionality and the Wallet function feels useless. I'm not too sure how secure having a copy of your COLD Wallet is on your browser. Additionally, I've been looking into Nord VPN that I also completely passed over the integrated VPN functionality as well.
That's like the worst ways to do what you want to do
What would you recommend then? I got sold on the privacy branding on Brave. But if it is useless and proven so, then I might as well migrate back to Firefox
It's hard to recommend anything to be honest, but personally I gravitate to Firefox with a bunch of privacy extension. Everything is opensource and everything is as non-controversial as it gets this days.
For vpn I installed my own on vps. I understand that it might sound a bit intimidating, but seriously you just follow instructions and everything works. But I use vpn to access stuff that is unaccessible in my country, it's not really a solution for privacy or safety, despite what an ad might tell you. And if you use it to get a little safety it might provide, using some huge company's solution is kind of defies the purpose
Using a vpn on a VPS kills the use for using the vpn for privacy, and, to a degree, anonymity. You do not share the IP with anyone so you are still trackable while using your vpn.
Depends on whom do you want to hide from. If you just don't want to have your porn history being sold by your local ISP or whatever, it's perfectly fine. If you want to be completely anonymous, VPN is the wrong tool for that, doesn't matter who has your logs, your ISP or your VPN company.
I used to have my own VPN set up. Had a massive power surge and took out my RPi running PiVPN. When I have time, I plan on re-setting it up again.
My main reason for VPN is as I have been researching Crypto more and I had read that you needed a VPN to interact with the DeFi Network.
I might go back to FireFox depending. I'm also trying to dedicate Chrome exclusively for use with my job and having either FF, or in this case, Brave for everything else I do.
Having VPN server on your own home network doesn't achieve anything. Like, nothing at all.
Not necessarily, depends on the use case.
To be honest, I struggle to come up with the usecause in this scenario. You are on the same network as your server, the fact that you also create vpn with it doesn't do anything. Maybe if you want to consolidate the traffic from different machines, I don't know, but everything I can think of that might require that will not be fulled by the vpn
What I have mainly used it for is when I’m not in the same location as my network and I need something from it. Like a Cloud so to speak. To VPN in, grab it, and done.
Well, yeah, of course, but that's not "having vpn from the same network you are in", it's different stuff
As you're already familiar with chrome try Vivaldi, it's built on a fork of the chrome engine so it will handle all Chrome's bits and pieces but it was created by Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, who was one of the guys that built and founded Opera back in the day but jumped ship before it got sold out to a Chinese consortium, so not only does it come from the gold standard of pushing the browser envelope from Opera but also von Tetzchner's vehement stance on privacy which has always been a huge part of his ethos.
So if you're after a browser that comes stacked with features like speed dial, mouse gestures, password vault, collapsible side bar (so everything isn't mooshed into the top bar) to name just a few (I'd literally be typing all day otherwise), as well as an iron clad focus on privacy that isn't just for show (have a look into von Tetzchner and read some of his blogs and you'll see) then I highly recommend Vivaldi.
Hey, I highly recommend Mulvad vpn rather than Nord (I have used both). I don't recommend using Brave VPN if that's what you are planning (or any free VPN for that matter).
Basically, whatever VPN you use gets to see and collect all your data. They are not supposed to keep or sell your data, but without third party audits, it's impossible to know. Even then, ultimately, you're "trusting" your VPN provider.
I personally would not trust Brave.
I didn't plan on it, as the research I did on the Brave VPN did not sit too well with me. Nord I have heard of, Mulvad is new to me. I know all too well about Free VPNs and the damage they could actually end up doing.
Pardon my mandplaning then. Most people don't bother researching at all.
Like I said, try Mullvad. You don't even use an email, you're just assigned an account number that you can reset any time. You can even buy cards from them on Amazon (or send cash, I guess) so there's no personal info linked to your account at all.
I promise I'm not sponsored lol. Anyways, good luck.