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Was Opera's "Turbo" mode not a similar feature? A feature launched in the early mobile/late dail-up days. Albeit the proxy CDN was provided by Opera. It would t
by scarlac 6y ago
Was Opera's "Turbo" mode not a similar feature? A feature launched in the early mobile/late dail-up days. Albeit the proxy CDN was provided by Opera. It would take proxy JPEGs, compress them more, serve them from an edge node. It don't think it was marketed as a privacy feature but mostly bandwidth/speed. But in theory if you trust Opera, you'd get more privacy?
- divbzero 6y agoOpera Turbo was a bit different, I think, in that it used Opera servers as CDN and provided additional compression, while Decentraleyes uses your local file system as CDN without modifying the resources.
- lucb1e 6y agoGiven that Mozilla now has a proxy (VPN) service, that could be a nice tie-in indeed.
- mike_d 6y agoYou don't want your VPN provider also unwrapping TLS.
- lucb1e 6y agoSo proxies intercepting your traffic are fine but VPN intercepting your traffic is not? Of course, this should be super explicit and opt-in, but Mozilla is in a position where a lot of people would trust them (you can agree or disagree whether that trust is misplaced) and if the goal is privacy and/or saving bandwidth on poor connections, this could be very useful.