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  • perishthethought@lemm.eetoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Is Mozilla VPN as private as Mullvad?English
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    11 days ago

    @[email protected] , unless you work for Mozilla, you have no idea what else they added in to the base service and none of us should blindly trust them, since Mozilla VPN is not an open source project.

    I use Mozilla VPN and I also have this concern, @[email protected] but other than the public docs from Mozilla, I’m not sure how anyone outside the company can answer this.

    For instance, this page (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/products/vpn/features/) talks a lot about how your browsing is improved thru their VPN, but doesn’t go intomuch depth on what they do with the data flowing through their/Mullvad’s servers, other than to say, “We never log, track or share your network data. Simply put, we don’t collect your personal browsing information.”

    This page has more detail – https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/subscription-services --, but still, you end up either trusting them or you don’t. I do, currently.

    Also, each time I start up the VPN app on Ubuntu, I see a prompt asking if I want to enable the “Share technical data” feature. I say no and it still works just fine. You might trust Mozilla more than I do with that data but I do trust them to not send it when the feature is disabled.

    And then the next screen asks if I want the VPN app to block ads, trackers and/or malware. (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-change-my-privacy-features) I already have Pihole on my network, so I don’t enable those features either. I suspect they incur network traffic thru Mozilla (specifically) but again, the docs do not cover how these feature work under the hood. So again, how much do you trust Mozilla?

    As always, YMMV. You can reach out to their Support and see if they’ll answer your questions, of course. I’ve dealt with them before and they’re OK to work with.

  • perishthethought@lemm.eetoTechnology@beehaw.org•Instagram announces a blatant CapCut cloneEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Instagram head Adam Mosseri just announced a video editing app called Edits. Mosseri said the app is meant to rival CapCut, a video editing app that went offline along with TikTok. Edits is available for preorder on the iOS App Store.

    “There’s a lot going on right now, but no matter what happens, it’s our job to provide the best possible tools for creators,” Mosseri said in a video posted to Instagram.