Well, some of us don't want to be tracked, don't want to be tracked and don't want to be tracked.
Given your stated preferences, are you actually looking for a privacy-focused browser?
Given your stated preferences, are you actually looking for a privacy-focused browser?
My understanding is that cookies etc aren't shared between containers, so I can stay logged in, and not be tracked across websites.
If it's achievable, why compromise?
This is a surprisingly effective one when combined with other users of your network. A couple of years ago, I started getting Facebook ads for things I'd never looked at, but that I knew my wife had looked at. We don't share any devices, and she doesn't even have a Facebook account.
It's pretty troubling how invasive shadow profiles are.
Some people just want to pick a different point on the tradeoff between convenience and privacy.
Imagine User A uses Fastmail every day, logging in manually every morning. User B uses Fastmail every day, with a saved login cookie. How is User B's privacy any worse? What would User B gain from not having that choice?
User B's privacy is objectively lessened by allowing tracking cookies, but that is their choice. What is out of the user's control is what mullvad chooses to spend their time supporting.
If mullvad allows users to turn off a privacy feature, now that's a permutation they have to test for. It's also an attack vector they've enabled, either through user carelessness or social engineering. Mullvad wants to be able to say "here's a browser, it's 100% private" and not have to say "as long as you do X, and don't do Y, and...". Every other browser already does that.
Being able to easily reopen a tab in a different "identity" is also a pretty neat feature.
Choose the right tool for the job.
At the end of the day, where there is attention, there will be ads. All you are fighting for should they show you relevant ads or irrelevant ads.
People who live a privileged life and have nothing else important going on in their life choose this hill to die on.
If you have that, you're a minority. And if you believe you have that, but actually you don't, you'll find out only after it's too late to save it. It's prudent instead to assume and act like you don't have it in either case.
Indeed, some of the greatest democracies have been set up precisely to that end.
For many, online privacy isn't at all about advertising. It's about working to a common good of rights and freedom for all.
Rest on your laurels all you like, but don't deride others who refuse to. It is only through the efforts of such people, and in the past those like them, that any of us have the ability to take any such rest at all.
Of course, not in the sense that the FBI, Wagner Group, or the boogy man are going after you today (but you never know what the future holds) - however data brokers and large companies have a financial incentive right now to know as much about everyone as possible and the information they collect is increasingly being used to decide your insurance rates, give you employment, etc.
>People who live a privileged life and have nothing else important going on in their life choose this hill to die on.
I mostly agree, however privacy issues impact the less privileged more, for example women seeking abortions in unfriendly states, teenagers learning about queer issues in a toxic community/family, people fleeing abusive relationships (the effort some stalkers do is truly insanity), minority groups (e.g. undocumented immigrants). Sure these groups can't dedicate lots of mental energy to privacy but plug and play browsers like this one make it easier and even if you are highly privileged protecting your privacy makes it more acceptable for others to do so too.