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  • Is there a vpn privacy browser other than epic & opera for Windows?

    From Larry Wolff@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 17 03:38:08 2023
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.freeware

    Is anyone on this newsgroup using a privacy web browser?
    Have you seen them blocked en masse by cloudflare lately?

    Is there a vpn privacy browser other than epic & opera for Windows?

    I've been using both Epic Privacy Browser and Opera VPN Browser for years,
    but in the past month or two they've been almost useless due to cloudflare blockages and the like. Even google & duckduckgo searches were blocked.

    The Epic browser reassuringly gave us a message for weeks telling us that
    they were working with cloudflare people but the latest version only got slightly better than horrible but nowhere near where it was prior.

    Opera is slightly better than is Epic but still cloudflared blocked a lot.

    Both used to be usable.
    Now neither is usable.
    And Tor is too locked down, so Brave won't be helpful.

    Is there another Windows VPN proxy privacy browser I don't know about yet?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From knuttle@21:1/5 to Larry Wolff on Mon Oct 16 15:38:54 2023
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.freeware

    On 10/16/2023 2:38 PM, Larry Wolff wrote:
    Is anyone on this newsgroup using a privacy web browser?
    Have you seen them blocked en masse by cloudflare lately?

    Is there a vpn privacy browser other than epic & opera for Windows?

    I've been using both Epic Privacy Browser and Opera VPN Browser for years, but in the past month or two they've been almost useless due to cloudflare blockages and the like. Even google & duckduckgo searches were blocked.

    The Epic browser reassuringly gave us a message for weeks telling us that they were working with cloudflare people but the latest version only got slightly better than horrible but nowhere near where it was prior.

    Opera is slightly better than is Epic but still cloudflared blocked a lot.

    Both used to be usable.
    Now neither is usable.
    And Tor is too locked down, so Brave won't be helpful.

    Is there another Windows VPN proxy privacy browser I don't know about yet?
    I have never used it but I believe that Mozilla offers a VPN, I thing
    with Firefox.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Nic@21:1/5 to Larry Wolff on Mon Oct 16 17:14:11 2023
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.freeware

    On 10/16/23 2:38 PM, Larry Wolff wrote:
    Is anyone on this newsgroup using a privacy web browser?
    Have you seen them blocked en masse by cloudflare lately?

    Is there a vpn privacy browser other than epic & opera for Windows?

    I've been using both Epic Privacy Browser and Opera VPN Browser for years, but in the past month or two they've been almost useless due to cloudflare blockages and the like. Even google & duckduckgo searches were blocked.

    The Epic browser reassuringly gave us a message for weeks telling us that they were working with cloudflare people but the latest version only got slightly better than horrible but nowhere near where it was prior.

    Opera is slightly better than is Epic but still cloudflared blocked a lot.

    Both used to be usable.
    Now neither is usable.
    And Tor is too locked down, so Brave won't be helpful.

    Is there another Windows VPN proxy privacy browser I don't know about yet?
    It seems that if you have a good vpn, then you can use any browser with privacy.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From T@21:1/5 to Larry Wolff on Mon Oct 16 14:04:12 2023
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.freeware

    On 10/16/23 11:38, Larry Wolff wrote:
    Is anyone on this newsgroup using a privacy web browser?
    Have you seen them blocked en masse by cloudflare lately?

    Is there a vpn privacy browser other than epic & opera for Windows?

    I've been using both Epic Privacy Browser and Opera VPN Browser for years, but in the past month or two they've been almost useless due to cloudflare blockages and the like. Even google & duckduckgo searches were blocked.

    The Epic browser reassuringly gave us a message for weeks telling us that they were working with cloudflare people but the latest version only got slightly better than horrible but nowhere near where it was prior.

    Opera is slightly better than is Epic but still cloudflared blocked a lot.

    Both used to be usable.
    Now neither is usable.
    And Tor is too locked down, so Brave won't be helpful.

    Is there another Windows VPN proxy privacy browser I don't know about yet?


    Brave Browser with TOR in private mode.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From JJ@21:1/5 to Larry Wolff on Tue Oct 17 04:24:27 2023
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.freeware

    On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 03:38:08 +0900, Larry Wolff wrote:
    Is anyone on this newsgroup using a privacy web browser?
    Have you seen them blocked en masse by cloudflare lately?

    Is there a vpn privacy browser other than epic & opera for Windows?

    I've been using both Epic Privacy Browser and Opera VPN Browser for years, but in the past month or two they've been almost useless due to cloudflare blockages and the like. Even google & duckduckgo searches were blocked.

    The Epic browser reassuringly gave us a message for weeks telling us that they were working with cloudflare people but the latest version only got slightly better than horrible but nowhere near where it was prior.

    Opera is slightly better than is Epic but still cloudflared blocked a lot.

    Both used to be usable.
    Now neither is usable.
    And Tor is too locked down, so Brave won't be helpful.

    Is there another Windows VPN proxy privacy browser I don't know about yet?

    I don't think there's any other browser+proxy bundle which is free and don't need user registration.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From JJ@21:1/5 to knuttle on Tue Oct 17 04:24:25 2023
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.freeware

    On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:38:54 -0400, knuttle wrote:
    I have never used it but I believe that Mozilla offers a VPN, I thing
    with Firefox.

    Mozilla VPN is not free unfortunately.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Frankie@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 17 02:42:16 2023
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.freeware

    On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 14:04:12 -0700, T wrote:

    On 10/16/23 11:38, Larry Wolff wrote:
    Is anyone on this newsgroup using a privacy web browser?
    Have you seen them blocked en masse by cloudflare lately?

    Is there a vpn privacy browser other than epic & opera for Windows?

    I've been using both Epic Privacy Browser and Opera VPN Browser for years, >> but in the past month or two they've been almost useless due to cloudflare >> blockages and the like. Even google & duckduckgo searches were blocked.

    The Epic browser reassuringly gave us a message for weeks telling us that
    they were working with cloudflare people but the latest version only got
    slightly better than horrible but nowhere near where it was prior.

    Opera is slightly better than is Epic but still cloudflared blocked a lot. >>
    Both used to be usable.
    Now neither is usable.
    And Tor is too locked down, so Brave won't be helpful.

    Is there another Windows VPN proxy privacy browser I don't know about yet?

    Brave Browser with TOR in private mode.

    Tor exit nodes are all known so I don't think Brave will help the op.
    But the op mentioned Brave as being "too locked down", whatever that means.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Larry Wolff@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 17 09:23:20 2023
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.freeware

    On 10/17/2023 6:24 AM, JJ wrote:

    On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:38:54 -0400, knuttle wrote:
    I have never used it but I believe that Mozilla offers a VPN, I thing
    with Firefox.

    Mozilla VPN is not free unfortunately.

    Thanks for the Mozilla VPN suggestion which I had not known about prior. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/products/vpn/download/

    But looking it up, it's definitely payware, as JJ said it would be. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozilla-vpn-free

    I don't use Firefox browsers all that much now that Chromium has taken over
    the world, but when I looked up Mozilla VPN, many free extensions exist.

    Anyone have experience with those Firefox freeware "VPN/Proxy Extensions"? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=vpn%20proxy

    There are six pages of them, at 12 to a page, for nearly a hundred choices. Probably they're all just repackaged names for the same proxy. Are they?

    Some of the too-many choices for free Firefox VPN extensions were these.

    Paladin VPN. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/paladinvpn-unlimited-free-vpn/

    Setup VPN.
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/setupvpn/

    Vee VPN. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/veepn-free-fast-security-vpn/

    Hoxx VPN.
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hoxx-vpn-proxy/

    Touch VPN.
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/touch-vpn/

    Since there are so many, with the exact same description, am I right in assuming that they're really all just one company spreading out the choice?

    If so, which is that one company that is a reliable free browser proxy?
    Mostly I use them only for IP address obfuscation/privacy & anonymity.

    Tor works but it's too slow and too restricted and exit nodes are known.

    There is also something called "Firefox Proxy" tools, but why are they
    needed (given a proxy is just a server that everything goes through)? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxyproxy-standard/

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Peter@21:1/5 to Frankie on Tue Oct 17 03:04:08 2023
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.freeware

    Frankie <frankie@nospam.usa> wrote:
    Is there another Windows VPN proxy privacy browser I don't know about yet? >>
    Brave Browser with TOR in private mode.

    Tor exit nodes are all known so I don't think Brave will help the op.
    But the op mentioned Brave as being "too locked down", whatever that means.

    I was intrigued by the topic so I ran a search which found six hundred
    pages of a dozen to a page which means there are a lot of free Firefox
    VPNs! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=free%20vpn

    With that many free Firefox VPNs to choose from, a 2nd opinion is needed.
    I scrolled through a few pages but didn't find any Mozilla had recommended.

    Some of those Mozilla Firefox free VPN extensions had only five or ten
    users while others had a hundred thousand to five hundred thousand users.

    Sorting by "Top rated" brought unrelated but better known extensions such
    as "Bit Warden" & "Plant free trees" to the top so there must be some purposeful data poisoning because neither of them is close to a free vpn.

    The OP will need to find someone out there who actually uses the free VPN.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From T@21:1/5 to Peter on Mon Oct 16 20:57:33 2023
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.freeware

    On 10/16/23 19:04, Peter wrote:
    Frankie <frankie@nospam.usa> wrote:
    Is there another Windows VPN proxy privacy browser I don't know about yet? >>>
    Brave Browser with TOR in private mode.

    Tor exit nodes are all known so I don't think Brave will help the op.
    But the op mentioned Brave as being "too locked down", whatever that means.

    I was intrigued by the topic so I ran a search which found six hundred
    pages of a dozen to a page which means there are a lot of free Firefox
    VPNs! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=free%20vpn

    With that many free Firefox VPNs to choose from, a 2nd opinion is needed.
    I scrolled through a few pages but didn't find any Mozilla had recommended.

    Some of those Mozilla Firefox free VPN extensions had only five or ten
    users while others had a hundred thousand to five hundred thousand users.

    Sorting by "Top rated" brought unrelated but better known extensions such
    as "Bit Warden" & "Plant free trees" to the top so there must be some purposeful data poisoning because neither of them is close to a free vpn.

    The OP will need to find someone out there who actually uses the free VPN.


    Firefox has a plugin for TOR as well.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Bradley@21:1/5 to Larry Wolff on Tue Oct 17 00:14:42 2023
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.freeware

    On 10/16/2023 8:23 PM, Larry Wolff wrote:
    Some of the too-many choices for free Firefox VPN extensions were these.

    Paladin VPN. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/paladinvpn-unlimited-free-vpn/

    Setup VPN.
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/setupvpn/

    Vee VPN. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/veepn-free-fast-security-vpn/

    Hoxx VPN.
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hoxx-vpn-proxy/

    Touch VPN.
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/touch-vpn/

    Most of those proxies will ask you to register with your email address
    which defeats the purpose of a VPN. I don't know what keyword to use for
    "no registration necessary" but that's what you'll want to look for.

    Certainly someone on this newsgroup should be ahead of you on that since no registration needed is the a basic requirement of any free VPN out there.

    You only need to register for paid VPNs, where the very act of registering
    and paying for it defeats the purpose (but most aren't aware of that flaw).

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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