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Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC (www.androidcentral.com)
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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair enough. I'm glad it works for you.

For what it's worth mullvad browser works for all of my use cases, I haven't found anything it doesn't work for.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's mainly NoScript that breaks sites for me, and there's no way to disable it.

Actually currently my Mullvad browser is not working at all. I have no idea why. My other 4 browsers continue unfettered but Mullvad won't load a single webpage.

Plus not being unable to be set as the the default browser means I often forget it's even there.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can open up the no script options and click on disable globally.

Sorry to hear mullvad's not loading anything. Seems like a weird bug

Setting the default browser, is a problem on Windows, there is a workaround I could dig up for you if you want. But basically you have to make a script and then modify the registry to point to that script as the default browser. It's a pain in the butt but it works. Thankfully on Linux, and Mac OS it just works as the default browser

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does not work on Linux. Not for me.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On Qubes it just worked after I did --register-app

Their GitHub has an issue open for it in Linux, I see that the tor project is working on a solution as well to make it more elegant.

But since it doesn't load any web pages for you, you don't want to make it your default anyway.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

On Qubes it just worked after I did --register-app

"Command not found". This is exactly why I don't even bother anymore.