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I recently did this exercise as well. There are a lot of browsers not mentioned that you can find here,[0] but there's one big missing one imo. The Tor browser
by culi 2y ago
I recently did this exercise as well. There are a lot of browsers not mentioned that you can find here,[0] but there's one big missing one imo.
The Tor browser is forked from Firefox to support the Tor Network. On top of the actual tor network it's filled to the brim with novel and unique privacy enhancing features. Mullvad (the VPN company) recently did a partnership with Tor to create the Mullvad Browser.[1] It's exactly the Tor browser but without the onion protocol part. Instead it just has all the anti-fingerprinting and privacy enhancing features.
I ended up going with that browser as it's the strongest privacy-focused Firefox fork option
[0] https://alternativeto.net/software/firefox/ https://alternativeto.net/software/firefox/
[1] https://support.torproject.org/mullvad-browser/ https://support.torproject.org/mullvad-browser/
- wruza 2y agoTangent, how does “mullvad” sound to native speakers (and non-natives too)? I can’t tell why, but it feels like such an unfortunate combination of phonemes that I avoid even looking into it subconsciously. Can barely force myself to pronounce it, is that just me?
- pdntspa 2y agoIt's just another foreign-sounding word in a language full of kidnapped vocabulary
- nameequalsmain 2y agoMullvad is Swedish for "mole". Mull is a word for soil, and "vad" seems to come from "vada", wade. So translated it would be "soilwade". To me, it sounds like just another word.
- kseistrup 2y agoTo native Swedish speakers it will look and sound like just another common Swedish word. And in the context it will even sound like a relevant choice of name. /me is Danish, and the Danish equivalent would be ‘muldvarp’.