Re Mozilla Relay, Vpn and ...
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Mozilla's other products.
I was wondering what people here think about two of Mozilla's products, Relay and MozillaVPN, or maybe about Mozilla in general.
For Relay, I guess you give them your real email address and create 'mask' addresses. Recipients see the mask address so if there is a reply or spam generated from them to you it will be sent to your mask address where you can decide to block further mail from that domain thereby keeping you real email inbox less cluttered.
Along with this email aspect it also works for your phone as well, for calls and messaging. I've encountered social media sites that I didn't really want to give personal information to but was required to give them a textable phone number. Seems like this service would have been useful.
Re VPNs, I notice that openvpn.service is running within Trisquel and now PureOS as well. I'm a little frustrated and will express that (sorry): Openvpn.service is started by systemd on my PC -so what!?! What the heck is it doing there. As far as I know, nothing. Feel free to troll that, hopefully constructively.
Anyway, I thought a vpn service a good idea and paid for a two year subscription with nordvpn. I don't think it's free software but it seems to work fine. Mozilla's might be a little cheaper.
I think it's $60 for a year for vpn, $12 for a year of Relay (USD)
Not the biggest fan of Mozilla in the last couple years , but forked browsers depend on them. Mozilla has privacy issues by default and they did support deplatforming.
Mozilla uses Mullvads infrastructure for their VPN. I would just use Mullvad VPN over Mozilla. You can pay in Monero and Bitcoin. The client is Foss and you don't have to give an email.
The Nord app on Google Play Store uses google anyltics according to Auroa droid. Just a heads up.
'The Nord app on Google Play Store uses google anyltics according to Auroa droid. Just a heads up.'
I can believe that. I just use nordvpn on the PC and got the app directly from them. F-droid has been the source of all the apps on my phone. I seldom surf on it and am currently using icecat when I do.
I haven't tried Ice Cat on the phone yet. Have you tried Droidify on F-droid ? it's a more up to date F-Droid with all the popular 3rd party repositories that you can chose to enable. What OS are you running on the phone ? I just started using Divest OS and Replicant.
> What the heck is it doing there.
I believe it just came to say hello, on my system it is listed as 'exited' whenever I check with "systemctl --type=service --all". It is probably there to make your life easier, should you need to configure a VPN.
> I thought a vpn service a good idea and paid for a two year subscription with nordvpn.
So you did configure OpenVPN to use NordVPN, right?
That might be a possibility. I had to download and install something from nordvpn and I'm wondering if it is using openvpn.
If I am getting this correcly, you probably installed the NordVPN "native application", which is making use of the OpenVPN protocol and is said to be "the recommended option": https://support.nordvpn.com/FAQ/NordVPN-setup-tutorials/1182453582/Installing-and-using-NordVPN-on-Linux.htm.
That does not preclude the OpenVPN service running by default on Trisquel installs, as a separate process. In fact their other how-to says that one should install and configure OpenVPN only after disabling IPv6: https://support.nordvpn.com/Connectivity/Linux/1047409422/Connect-to-NordVPN-using-Linux-Terminal.htm.
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