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So it's just the TOR browser with TOR disabled? Thing is, you could do that anyway. It did take setting a couple environment variables, no GUI method, but easy
by hendersoon 3y ago
So it's just the TOR browser with TOR disabled? Thing is, you could do that anyway. It did take setting a couple environment variables, no GUI method, but easy enough to do. Unclear what value Mullvad's version provides. Feels like a promotional thing.
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- suslik 3y agoI suspect that this: > It did take setting a couple environment variables, no GUI method , which is unknown to almost anyone, would scare an absolute majority of non-technical folk away. Even if what mullvad does is relatively small in scope, it can still provide a lot of value to people.
- yencabulator 3y agoOf course it's a promotional thing, it's named after a company. Think of it this way: Mullvad is sponsoring Tor at >=$100,000/year, and in exchange the Tor Browser developers made a slight fork of their codebase that sets a couple of environment variables and changes the branding. Now the fact that it's just a couple of environment variables sounds like a good thing, right?