The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/AerieFluffy2718 on 2025-01-17 01:02:59.
it’s fucked up, people use this browser and get caught up in a bunch of mistakes they make and ruin their privacy and anonymity. All right, you kids ready? I’m gonna throw out a bunch of lifehacks.
- browser with good privacy until you touch the settings with your naughty fingers
mullvad-browser protected against a lot of identification techniques, untill you do something stupid. sites cant identify you by:
canvas fingerprint- random
webgl,webauthn devices - disabled
os - not enough data
constant data between all mullvad-browsers - language, output, input devices
cookies, supercookies, other stuff that saves on your drive - erased after you close your browser
ip - vpn ;/
I never found a site that could clearly identify me.
1.dont touch shit
dont touch your about:config and dont install a bunch of extensions, you can be identified by this, for example, your extension may modify something on page and shady script can send this back to server, and it may know about extension you using. So be carefull about this, better to just forget about extensions. Well, lets talk about good things.
- You can run profiles!
just start browser from your console, windows or linux, like this:
mullvad-browser -P
and you can create multiple profiles for anonymous/less anonymous/not anonymous things. profiles isolated from each other, so you can install all your scary extensions in one of profiles and enjoy your half anonymous browser with different settings for your social networks, dog, sister etc…
- TOUCH SHIT!
So here we are, with our half-anonimous browser, lets touch these sexy settings. (THIS WILL HARM YOUR ANONYMITY!)
go to about:config we are going to cook
A. in search bar type “letterboxing” disable everything, this will make gray frame around web page go away.
B. you can also enable security.webauth.webauthn and now you can use your security keys :>
C. privacy.resistFingerprinting.target_video_res you can ask sites for better resolution then 480!
D. turn off there options and mullvad will not break random pictures (canvas)privacy.resistFingerprinting.randomDataOnCanvasExtract
privacy.resistFingerprinting.autoDeclineNoUserInputCanvasPrompts
E. privacy.resistFingerprinting.spoofOsInUserAgentHeader
Will spoof your useragent, Dont use it to hide your ass, as i said earlier this will probably make your privacy less private.
- restart your browser regulary and connect to other vpn server (or change location in browser extension) if you want extra anonymity, this will erase cookies and all this dirty stuff, and you cant be tracked by ip. dont ignore DAITA
- be carefull with proxy extension. is saves your proxy-exit after you close your browser.
- if you login somewhere with your real data, privacy disapears, use tempmail and temp numbers. this way you can be tracked, but you will save a piece of your privacy.
Please research more, and dont listen to stupid people like me on the internet, look at their site, they have a lot of usefull info there, learn more about browser (it based on tor-browser). Good luck. AND DONT TOUCH SHIT!