If you go to a web site, you will be recognized and tracked via your IP deal with, third-party cookies, every kind of monitoring scripts, and thru so known as browser fingerprints. That is why masking your IP deal with will not be sufficient to cease the info assortment. Nevertheless, by utilizing a reliable VPN together with a privacy-focused browser, you possibly can put up a greater resistance towards the mass surveillance of in the present day. That is why we partnered with the Tor Venture to develop Mullvad Browser – a browser designed to reduce monitoring and fingerprints.
A VPN will not be sufficient. This is the reason you want a privacy-focused browser.
Large tech, authorities, and knowledge brokers can use your IP deal with, cookies, scripts, and browser fingerprints to establish and monitor you on-line. Be taught extra about your undesirable followers and why you want a privacy-focused browser to cease them.
A Tor-developed browser. To run with a VPN as an alternative of the Tor Community.
Utilizing a VPN alone will not be sufficient to attain good privateness. There’s merely an excessive amount of knowledge being extracted via most browsers. So, Mullvad reached out to the specialists on privacy-focused browsers: the Tor Venture. Be taught concerning the concept behind the collaboration.
Your browser in itself could be a privateness downside. Issues to search for when selecting a browser.
Some browsers are made to map your web conduct. That is their enterprise mannequin. Others simply haven’t got sufficient privateness safety. These are the questions it’s best to ask your self (and even higher, the browser supplier) earlier than you select a browser.
Your browser can be utilized to uniquely establish you. Get to know browser fingerprinting.
If you go to a webpage, most browsers give away details about your software program and machine. Combining this data together with your different browser knowledge makes it doable to create a person profile that may establish you.
No telemetry.
Telemetry is exclusive knowledge being collected by the browser to enhance its efficiency. We do not consider in gathering knowledge about our customers. So, with the Mullvad Browser we’ve eliminated all telemetry.
Personal looking by default.
The Mullvad Browser has personal mode enabled by default. This implies no cookies, cache and historical past are saved between your classes. The browser additionally features a reset button that creates a clear session in a single click on.
Blocking third-party trackers with uBlock Origin.
Even with sturdy safety towards fingerprinting and cookies, it is a good suggestion to dam third-party trackers. You do not need to use ‘too many’ extensions because it may very well be the one factor that identifies you. That is why we solely use uBlock Origin.
Clear enterprise mannequin.
We’ve no intention in incomes cash from the Mullvad Browser. Our enterprise mannequin is to earn cash from our VPN service. Our solely ambition with the Mullvad Browser is to offer one of the best privacy-focused browser doable to Mullvad’s VPN customers – and to everybody else, for that matter.
Privateness first.
Mullvad VPN has a confirmed file of placing privateness first. With no unusual enterprise fashions or short-term enterprise capitalist homeowners. The Tor Venture is a non-profit group preventing for human rights. We are going to all the time put privateness first, in all the things we do.
What’s New
- Up to date Firefox to 128.5.0esr
- Up to date uBlock Origin to 1.61.0
- Rebase Mullvad Browser steady onto Firefox 128.5.0esr [mullvad-browser]
- Backport safety fixes from Firefox 133 [tor-browser]
macOS
- Bug 43165: Disable Microsoft SSO on macOS [MozBug 1768724] [tor-browser]
Construct System
- Don’t model the .nobackup information [tor-browser-build]
- Replace relprep.py script to not synchronise changelogs between channels [tor-browser-build]
- Add bea, clairehurst, and jwilde to tb_builders [tor-browser-build]
- Repair the Mullvad Extension replace in relprep.py [tor-browser-build]