Debian literally used a de-Mozilla’ed fork called Icewesel for like a decade. It’s fine. I never noticed any differences.

Just wait or switch distros. All the security updates they hold hostage for money come eventually. If you’re not a bank or wanted by a major world power, I doubt anyone is going pwn you with a security fix Ubuntu is slow walking to force people into pro. Since they started that shit I don’t put Ubuntu on new hardware, but I’m not going to purge servers I have it on because I’m worried someone’s going to deploy a sub-month old vulnerability against me as a rando doing nothing important.

How Kier Starmer manages to be more retarded and dickless on this shit than Modi is so fucking sad and hilarious. GCHQ literally invented and distributed public key crypto because they knew you need this shit to do internet business. Props for raising up a strong woman by making Liz Truss not the worst PM ever!

He believes he IS America, we will see if he’s wrong

Kiiiinda true but only with boomer-era on-disk printed at a factory Waterfall. Also everything after agile is just copium for an over professionalized world in which craftsmanship itself had given way, undermining the very concept of expertise so everything is junior devs and now ai

You do you, girl

Oh, Dish may well have bought them by now.

No instance is privacy friendly, literally all activity here is public by definition.

Yeah, Graphene is really great

I’d go with a discount reseller. You save so much money even with a Consumer Cellular, which is on the pricier end of resellers. I’d avoid Ting though, even though it’s probably the cheapest, if you like keeping your phone number. They constantly try to steal your phone number because it’s owned by some scammy Canadian ISP with a decades long track record of being an ass.

There’s an xkcd about this, it would basically become a nuke near the speed of light

For all its benefits over the US, Europe is a shitshow as per individual speech rights. They will literally throw you in prison for objecting to a genocide their own state cosigned ICC judgements against the perpetrators of.

Same, got it twice now

Tor browser inherently uses tor, as the other comment says, Mulvad offers tor browser sans tor as Mulvad browser. As per the “do you tor over VPN” issue I think we need to first cover some networking concepts…

So your internet works via protocols, UDP provides a basic connection where you can send unordered messages, TCP works on top of UDP to provide linear order. Things like old video chat and bittorrent work over UDP because you don’t care about order, you just want the data as you get it, so the video freezes or glitches, but you get the most recent frame of the video. Things like programs and webpages aren’t YOLO about data integrity, so they use TCP which enforces order, so you don’t get frames from 1 minute later in your Netflix video out of sync. VPNs provide UDP, which is lower level than TCP, which tor provides, so you can tor over VPN but you cannot VPN over tor.

If you use Mulvad browser from your VPN, you will look like everyone using Mulvad browser from your VPN exit point, which may well just be you, it’s fairly esoteric. If you use tor browser, you will appear to be exiting from a tor exit node along with hundreds if not thousands of other tor browser users.

[edit: just realized I forgot to actually address the is it worse to tor over vpn question. There is no privacy impact per you and the site, the question is state surveillance. Mentaloutlaw on Odysee says the feds will extra look at things if you tor from a VPN, but I really don’t buy that’s how anything works, I think most non-Germany state actors would look at ISP-level tor use to lock you up and not deal with the headache of subpoenaing a VPN provider to find out one rando is using tor]

Tor browser. Obviously you can’t bank with it, but, it’s really fine for general browsing. You get some blocking but it’s often just a matter of switching exit nodes a few times.

This all kind of depends on your threat model… a VPN hides traffic from your ISP, and puts your traffic in with a lot of other traffic, but domestic IPs generally rotate fairly frequently, so only your ISP really knows when that happens, but they also probably sell that data because we live in an over-financialized, under-regulated hellscape, but your VPN also exists in that hellscape, and knows who you are just as much unless you buy Mulvad with perfectly laundered monero and is as likely to be selling that data if not more so than your ISP. There’s a reason why people use tor…

True, but MIT can’t lock you in a federal prison for 50 lifetimes, and arguably the primary responsibility of the state is to protect private citizens against gangs of other private citizens, be they the Bloods or MIT or Chevron

Remember when the Obama admin made Aaron Schwartz kill himself for ripping some JSTOR articles?

Have you tried daily driving tor recently? You can certainly get slow speeds still, but in my experience recently they’re generally not too bad most of the time, especially for things coming out of the major CDNs.

Please don’t bank with a bleeding edge web engine that isn’t forked from one that’s been around for decades. It’s really not secure to use things that people haven’t had time to attack yet.