Is This the New Best Privacy Browser? (Mullvad Browser)

There's a new privacy browser on the block. The Tor Project and Mullvad VPN have teamed up to bring you the baddest, most private browser out there. But does it live up to the hype? Does it put other privacy browsers like hardened Firefox, Librewolf, and Brave out of business? Find out in this video...
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0:00 Intro
1:22 What's Mullvad browser all about?
2:09 Installation
2:25 Mullvad Browser features
4:15 What's the catch?
5:42 Wait, why can't I change the settings?
7:59 How Mullvad Browser protects you from advanced fingerprinting scripts
9:38 What's the difference between this and Tor?
10:41 When you shouldn't use Mullvad Browser
12:26 My recommendations
12:52 Oh no, Mullvad Browser is REPLACING Hardened Firefox!
13:32 Final thoughts

[@finoderi]

Special thank you for not using lengthy and monstrous intro in the beginning of your videos.

[@EricMurphyxyz]

I can't stand watching videos with long intros either, so I try not to put them in my videos

[@jirehla-ab1671]

​@@EricMurphyxyzIt maybe due to the fact that a lot of routers here in Saudi are huwaei based

[@entx8491]

​@@jirehla-ab1671wat?

[@BaremetalFlesh]

I love how it was like a 2 second intro and then immediately into the content I actually do really appreciate that

[@lovesick4]

Hey there! It's been a while, but I hope you're doing well. I just wanted to reach out and say that I recently stumbled upon your new video about the latest web browsers and I must say, it was really impressive! Your insights and analysis were spot-on, and I found myself learning a lot from it. Keep up the great work!

[@EricMurphyxyz]

Thanks, really appreciate it!

[@lovesick4]

@@EricMurphyxyz :)

[@Steerable6827]

removing the mullvad extension would not be a great idea because the whole goal is to follow the tor philosophy of everyone having the same ones installed for fingerprinting purposes.

[@EricMurphyxyz]

I believe the developers said it was OK to remove. I read that somewhere, let me see if I can find the source.

[@vladik_yt3186]

​@@EricMurphyxyzspoiler:you didn't found

[@frostmafia1380]

do a vpn tierlist. Im a fan of mullvad personally, the fact you can mail them the 5 euro a month it costs so you don't have to use traceable digital currency is sick

[@BaremetalFlesh]

I think it's honestly so cool that you can actually mail them cash, if I ever go full schizo they got my money

[@_BLANK_BLANK]

I haven't used mullvad browser yet. Though I'm planning to for my laptop once I get mullvad VPN. Mostly because I just used a few browsers. I try keeping a plain chromium one with ublock for KZbin /google and social media type sites, a privacy respecting chromium, like brave, a slightly hardened Firefox, and then a properly hardened Firefox version. Then separate what I do in each. After getting them setup up for what I want, its actually just easier having multiple browsers.

[@_BLANK_BLANK]

Just got a notification for this comment. And wanted to give an update. I tried mullvad browser. I really like it. Imo probably my favorite privacy focused browser especially with mullvsd vpn coupled.

[@farouqstray1411]

@@_BLANK_BLANK What did you like about it?? I mean for what use cases would he be better than Brave

[@_BLANK_BLANK]

@@farouqstray1411 its basically like tor. But practical to use for everyday tasks. It has all the same features, but rather than using the tor network. It uses mullvad vpn (iddealy for keeping the fingerprint the same). Or you can use no vpn. As far as actually using it, its the perfect browser for doing stuff where you dont need to log into an account. You can easily keep your browser clean, just by leaving the origional settings in place. To get the most out of it, i recommend keeping 2 browsers, have chromium, firefox, or brave. And use that for logging into personal accounts. Then have mullvad for everything else.

[@ash-wd6zk]

Sus ideas y análisis son muy buenos, pero el MoreLogin que estoy usando también puede satisfacer mis necesidades y el precio es más económico.

[@AM-tu1rc]

What would you say is the difference between using Librewolf and Librewolf Private/Incognito mode? Librewolf Private mode is basically the same as Mullvad, but Normal Librewolf isn't because it saves logins. Is that the main difference other than the default-philosophy of Mullvad?

[@Chris3s]

did you find out? currently I use librewolf

[@VictoriaMan69]

Why wouldn't this browser use 1920x1080 resolution as a default if they really wanted to blend in and avoid fingerprinting? Seems to me that this custom resolution would make it easier for sites to identify users.

[@EricMurphyxyz]

Not sure, but there's plenty of people on screens smaller than 1920x1080, and plenty of people who don't maximize their browser all the time. The browser uses the bars around it to round down the resolution to a multiple of 100 (e.g. 1900x1000), so you should blend in with everyone with a similar window size (within the nearest 100 pixels).

[@jirehla-ab1671]

​@@EricMurphyxyzHere in Saudi arabia, inbsome instances the government can still be able to really know the websites yur visiting even if yur using a VPN.

[@NAKADZI]

@@jirehla-ab1671 They will probably find out because of DNS server leaks or something like that

[@jirehla-ab1671]

@@NAKADZI even with a vpn?

[@Chag69420]

Window sizes can be any random size if it's not full screen. Having varying sizes in no way trackable.

[@joellyxyz]

fingerprint site still keeps record of my ID even after I close and reopen. It did this on arkenfox and Mullvad broswer all while using Mullvad VPN. Thoughts?

[@andrewbrantley533]

Really good but my question is will Mullvad browser be relief as a app on the android and iOS for the App Store and the future? Will it be planned?

[@Ambassador-For-Christ]

I use Librewolf 60% of the time, and Brave 40% of the time, and for some special projects, I use Mullvad 10% of the time !!

[@rediffusion7996]

What kind of projects can you tell?

[@Ambassador-For-Christ]

@@rediffusion7996 I can't tell you any of the special projects, as they are all personal... PRIVATE !!

[@Ambassador-For-Christ]

@@rediffusion7996 None of your business !! They are PRIVATE !!

[@Ambassador-For-Christ]

@@rediffusion7996 They are Private !!

[@FruityHachi]

do you have to use specifically mullvad vpn to reap the benefits of mullvad browser, or can you use any other vpn provider?

[@Bond2025]

There is a HUGE PROBLEM. If a browser like this makes me unique - then it is making me identifiable! If I am one of 19677732 users online, then it knows who I am. The idea should be to make all the users look exactly the same and be the same as everyone else.

[@purpinkn]

okay but devs use window size to rearrange elements for better UI? so why would you break that?

[@Vexxter09]

what if I have dark mode turned on windows and it automatically turns mullvad dark

[@DevanandPA-vq1yj]

How about having a windows VM with google chrome on it to blend in with the crowd ?

[@AgentTex13]

I have two browsers that I use. I have both Brave and Hardened Firefox

[@iQuickscopedUrNan]

Eric, you said that DuckDuckGO wasn't your favourite search engine, what do you use or recommend?

[@suckthesenutz]

You should use librawolf or brave. I would say librawolf

[@Mojo_DK]

I am just using LibreWolf. I see no reason to switch.

[@Playboipete]

this is how i felt exactly. i really do want to like it but i dunno. ill try it again next time

[@EricMurphyxyz]

Yeah I think the idea is cool but I'm not really going to be using it personally

[@biblebot3947]

Maybe use TOR with this as the default search engine? Would that make this safer?

[@bruhda7469]

Yes, but lets be real, TOR is so slow

[@polnapanda4934]

wdym? Mulvad brower isn't search engine and if you use duck duck go on thor it still is anonymous

[@shauryachavan1284]

Nice

[@smit17xp]

TIL. Thanks

[@AK-ox3mv]

How foss browsers make money?

[@farouqstray1411]

Somehow!! but they need to make money at some point,, So, you need to check on how that company tries to make money,, is it by donation? is it by selling your data?

[@chipcook5346]

7:59 The Zebra Effect?

[@naranyala_dev]

please mobile browser too; like via, soul, or others

[@nuitNo.6]

I'm probably gonna use this instead of Brave. I may not browse privately, but at least it doesn't have an AI assistant. Big turnoff.

[@nuitNo.6]

It's a good browser if you turn off Letterboxing and learn how search shortcuts (bookmarks with keywords) differ from Brave. Now it just needs media controls to work and come with picture-in-picture mode for video play while browsing.

[@perfectdarkmode]

Hmm. No app for IOS. Can't wait till I can switch to Android lol

[@EricMurphyxyz]

I mean there's no android version either at the moment

[@perfectdarkmode]

@@EricMurphyxyz Well still hating iphone since switching to Linux. Such a pain.

[@lughano5253]

forced light mode? garbage.

[@EricMurphyxyz]

Literally unusable

[@user-bi1vv3vq3i]

@@EricMurphyxyz Yeah, especially since UserStyles exist, and they can't detected, I think

[@ToucH9000]

lmao, misleading thumbnail... noone is going to beat BRAVE anyway

[@neon-original]

Librewolf is mid, some websites get broken on it

[@Proferk]

brave? you mean the crypto filled adware browser? hardened firefox is better in every imaginable way.

[@ItsYoi13]

Brave fan kekw

[@testbouil6871]

Brave = biggest spyware ever lol

[@FruityHachi]

@@Proferk you can easily disable all crypto adware in settings, just like you'd change settings in firefox and it's actually easier to just toggle off crypto in settings than having to use a custom user file and in there you still have to adjust settings if you want to keep something

[@Bond2025]

Tor never did provide anonymity and is worse now, it only ever provided anonymity to a certain extent. Tor Project altered the settings on TorBrowser Bundle firefox in late 2013 to facilitate Operation Onymous for Law Enforcement around the World. They were put under pressure to do this and also made sure that before this, scripts were running in the background when the slider said they were all blocked. This was a deliberate attempt to first try and find Ed Snowden as they needed to locate his access point. Sites were altered to run a script to get that info. Then it was used on Tor sites and people using TorMail. That project team did a lot of damage, but denied it, but also said nothing was hacked - so what was the story? I downloaded a version of TorBrowserBundle from the official site in Novemeber 2013 and it had a "Profiler Trojan" built in, when I reported it, no one was interested, they made excuses about my antivirus. It had been altered deliberately for UK users. Tor Project then dropped the word anonymity and changed it all to privacy and still claim no one is anonymous. They did a lot of damage as people were either forced to do this, or Law enforcement hacked everything.

[@biblebot3947]

Do you have a source for this? I just read a 2015 interview with Snowden where he praises TOR.

[@biblebot3947]

“This is what a TOR supporter looks like”