Mozilla vpn used to be a rebrand of mullvad. Might still be.

There isn’t a comparable service.

If you don’t need what mullvad is selling then there are others out there but the landscape is hard to navigate if you don’t understand what you’re there for and how to choose what you give out.

You just need a vpn. Based on your other tech support threads you need the one with the fewest ways to mess up (I do too). You should try mullvad. If it turns out that you have to shuffle around different servers too often and can’t tolerate being blocked, switch to a geofencing bypass style vpn like nord or something.

Bear in mind I’m recommending mullvad because it’s really hard to use it in an unsafe way, which it unique in the vpn world. If you go with something else you’ll have to make sure you understand the choices you’re making which is often a tall order.

If you want to have a different Android device then your only real choice for crossing a border is graphene, assuming you care about not being detained the maximum amount of time that is legal while they apply celebrite to your phone.

In this circumstance it’s not out of the range of possibilities for dhs to get a warrant (they don’t need it if the place is close enough to a land border or international airport) and search your home or business where you left your current personal phone. They will have the home address from your passport (it’s illegal to not update it!) and will likely have no problem locating your place of business.

The problem with graphene at border crossings is that it’s made the news a bunch lately and an agent could see simply having a phone with graphene as probable cause, especially if you act like a weirdo.

The above is the reason I suggested ios devices. They resist cellebrite and look normal.

If you literally just want an android phone that you can use on vacation instead of your usual one, I hope you find some good input and resolve your needs.

It kinda depends on what your goal is. I tend to point people towards iphones in this situation because they don’t attract attention and can be easily secured. If you absolutely gotta have Android the best choice is a pixel with graphene. You gotta make sure the bootloader and carrier are both unlocked so you can install graphene though, so that’s something to navigate.

You said elsewhere that you don’t use eBay because of their age verification. It may be worthwhile, if you are underage, to think critically about what you’re trying to accomplish here.

No they are not. Famously last year it became public knowledge that the built in lawful intercept hardware backdoors across the entire cell phone network and pstn were compromised by “the Chinese”.

FaceTime audio, signal calls and perhaps WhatsApp use encryption in transit, so those backdoors don’t affect them. I don’t know about other data calling methods.

Air is my go to piracy vpn. Their app is garbage, use the config file generator instead. Air is my go to piracy VPN because it is a piracy vpn service. I would not use them as a shield from any sort of serious threat.

I use windscribe for stuff that doesn’t matter like bypassing geoblocks. I don’t trust them, their abilities or my ability to limit my own exposure to their malice, compliance or incompetence. It’s a confusing service.

People are suggesting ivpn and I have used it. It’s a downgrade from mullvad in every way but it might be safe. I can’t say because it hasn’t been tested in the same way.

I use mullvad when it actually matters. It’s really hard to screw up and they have the best app of any vpn service I’ve ever used.

There are a lot of people saying why they would want to move away from mullvad, why do you? What devices and operating systems do you use it on? How do you pay?

I wouldn’t use a package that does that because it breaks the security of proton, but tbh it’s email who cares.

As far as that package in particular who can say.

From a more 10,000 foot perspective: if you have to ask on a public forum if an application you give access to your secure email account so it can copy and paste contacts into your os address book is safe it’s probably worthwhile to figure out what you’re trying to do and under what constraints.

In that case plan on doing your research into what specific insane unofficial smarttube app you want to use.

No you don’t have to reinstall. If you didnt do disk encryption you can just boot from a usb, chroot in and passwd <username>

Your vpn question is too vague. All your computer support request posts are too vague. What vpn app do you want to use?

In my experience the only app that was worth a crap on Linux was mullvads and maybe nords but it’s been a while on that one and my expectations have risen a bunch since then. You’re usually better off downloading the wg conf files and using wg-quick up.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that if they had a lockable bootloader or sandbox they’d be saying so.

Would be nice to be wrong though…

Building and loading your own apps for tvOS isn’t hard but the instructions are always written for Xcode in its native environment (macos, formerly osx of xcode fame). You may have no problem setting up a vm for that, already have some device that runs macos natively or run into an infinite amount of roadblocks that you can’t surpass.

In the last case be careful what insane unofficial smarttube app you settle on.

You could also, and I wasn’t able to come up with a better way to put this because I’m not very smart so apologies if it seems like an attack, not watch youtube on the tv.

You have to take some extra steps, it’s not just “click button -> success”, but it’s not too hard.

Perhaps you’re the target audience for the many unofficial smarttube apps in the tvOS store.

Yeah, if your concern is privacy and security I wouldn’t switch to nym over mullvad. Mixnets have many more points of trust to establish or for an attacker, to undermine.

There are specific times when a person might choose a mixnet but those are relatively low stakes situations such as “I might go to several websites all using the same cdn at a time when I’m the only person using my particular vpn proxy and that cdn could associate my browsing habits between the various sites”, like in the video, but it’s not what anyone should be choosing when they’re imagining a powerful agency kicking in the door of their vpn proxy provider and trying to force them to install a tracking system.

Also the situation wherein your choose a mixnet over something else are mitigated by clearing your cookies and closing your browser, using container tabs, etc.

im using a chromecast right now and i want a similar experience to that, just more privacy friendly

If they had asked for a project I would have given different input. Which would have also not been Linux.

Nothing is similar to mullvad.

I would not switch to nym from mullvad without a very good reason and understanding of how to mitigate differences.

What are you trying to accomplish by switching?

Depends on your definition of worse.

On the one hand you’re 100% being used as a proxy for illegal activities that could get the cops sent to your door looking to do a search for csam and the defenses of equipment on your network are being probed and either directly exploited or catalogued and sold to the highest bidder. Cameras and microphones on compromised equipment are activated and used periodically to perform surveillance and monitoring and there is at least one documented example of someone being blackmailed as part of a pig butchering scam because of that.

On the other hand Google wants to sell your information to advertisers and apple wants to use it to advertise directly to you.

So it’s kinda six or one half dozen of the other.

Not really, you’re just part of a residential proxy network and all the information that can be discerned about your network and the devices connected to it is being collected by the people who run that residential proxy network.

There are a bunch of tvos smart tube apps in the store for free but I’d just build the client on github and load it.

Even on the most locked down device the qos involved in streaming gives enough information to track you. If your goal is to block ads that’s no problem but just bear in mind the feed isn’t one way, your device communicates back to the source to negotiate bitrates and buffers and that’s enough to do some very accurate measurements especially with a side channel of normal https communication in the mix which they all have.

It sounds like you just want to block ads and there’s nothing wrong with that, I just don’t want to lead you into thinking you’re actually in any way private when streaming. Every service is actively collecting as much information as they can in the process of sending you video.

Anyway don’t read any of that just try out the appletv and if you end up not liking it you can easily sell it to someone for 90% of what you paid.

It’s appletv unless you’re willing to use a custom sbc with a taped together third party android version.

I don’t recommend the latter option because it fucking sucks and you seem like a psycho to others who may use it or watch stuff with you.

You can just host jellyfin from your pc (or a server in your closet) if you wanna get away from streaming services and it works good with either option.

I want to be clear as day that you cannot get a privacy friendly experience from any Android streaming device unless you load it yourself and make sure it’s something like the lineageos Android tv stuff linked by another user.

It’s probably worth it for you to put into words what you’re trying to accomplish, being as clear and explicit as possible.