Mullvad VPN Internet BROWSER? Mullvad x Tor Project Collab

[AnOminous]

Or they employ a law firm that sends "settlement" letters with specific info on an infringement and threatens you with court, unless you pay.

This is mainly a tactic of copyright trolls who sometimes even set up the torrents themselves of stuff like gay porn or porn that would embarrass you to your relatives, where they threaten to sue you and let your family know about your gay porn habits unless you cough up the money.

Some of these operations have been shut down for exactly this kind of extortionate practices.

Prenda Law was a famous example. One of these copyright trolls got 14 years in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.

https://www.klemchuk.com/ideate/porn-copyright-trolls-prenda-law

The RIAA may be scum but they have generally not engaged in such tactics. They have done that "settlement letter" shit, but generally against actual infringers, whether or not you consider such actions to be a good thing (I don't).

 

[Vince McMahon]

This is mainly a tactic of copyright trolls who sometimes even set up the torrents themselves of stuff like gay porn or porn that would embarrass you to your relatives, where they threaten to sue you and let your family know about your gay porn habits unless you cough up the money.

Some of these operations have been shut down for exactly this kind of extortionate practices.

Prenda Law was a famous example. One of these copyright trolls got 14 years in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.

https://www.klemchuk.com/ideate/porn-copyright-trolls-prenda-law

The RIAA may be scum but they have generally not engaged in such tactics. They have done that "settlement letter" shit, but generally against actual infringers, whether or not you consider such actions to be a good thing (I don't).

Oh, I know about that. However, in the situation I've described, the law firms are legitimate and they actually appear to have copyright owners as clients.

 

[Overly Serious]

I've been trying out the Mulvad browser. My points of comparison are Edge and Brave. For Edge, it feels equivalent in speed. For Brave, it is noticeably faster (sorry, Brave). It eats up a significant amount of space at the foot of webpages and that hasn't stopped me using it but it is a negative. A more significant problem is that I don't seem to be able to set a custom search engine. Perhaps I'm missing something but it seems locked to their approved ones (Google, Bing and DuckDuckgo, iirc). I'm a big fan of Kagi and don't want to give that up.

Other than those, however, I've found it very nice.

 

[The Ghost of Kviv]

A more significant problem is that I don't seem to be able to set a custom search engine.

Since it's just Firefox, you can use the same methods to add your own search engines.

 

[Aidan]

For me, the Mullvad Browser is a welcome addition to the browser market. It's what private browsing should be as far as I can tell, it defeats fingerprinting better than others I've tested.

I need to learn more about it but I think it's going to become something I recommend to others as a user-friendly private browsing solution. As a daily driver, it's probably not ideal without some tweaking.

 

[Overly Serious]

Since it's just Firefox, you can use the same methods to add your own search engines.

Thanks for the link, but unfortunately you can't. They've done something that locks it down. I challenge you to add Kagi as a search engine in the Mulvad browser.

 

[The Ghost of Kviv]

Thanks for the link, but unfortunately you can't. They've done something that locks it down. I challenge you to add Kagi as a search engine in the Mulvad browser.

Spoiler: You didn't even try

 

[Overly Serious]

Spoiler: You didn't even try

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I did. That adds the trial Kagi with the 50 searches or whatever. I need to be able to add an actual search string with the Kagi token included. There's no edit option on the list of search engines in your second screenshot.

EDIT: I appreciate you trying to help.

 

[The Ghost of Kviv]

I did. That adds the trial Kagi with the 50 searches or whatever. I need to be able to add an actual search string with the Kagi token included. There's no edit option on the list of search engines in your second screenshot.

EDIT: I appreciate you trying to help.

Follow this. The query URL is in this example.

 

[Overly Serious]

Follow this. The query URL is in this example.

You are one persistent fellow and I thank you for it. So I read through that page and found from it that if I go to aboutonfig in the URL and then search for the browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh setting, I can set that to true and suddenly the Add button will appear below the search engine list in the settings page. Then it's just a matter of pasting in my search URL I already know with the token parameter. Why Firefox decided to hide that Add button, I have no idea.

Anyway, that's removed the main barrier to my using Mulvad as my default browser. Between that and Kagi, I'm in a pretty good place.

Thanks.