2024

What does Firefox do when you start it?

The following video shows you the connections that Firefox does when started. This is data collection and user tracking.

Look at the domains it tries to connect.

I audited Mullvad Browser: why does the browser contact the following endpoints?

What I did for this test:

downloaded the browser,
extracted it,
ran it with no interactions, in other words leaving the browser window alone for about 5 minutes.

I did not open any web page or did anything... I can tell that github is probably used for Ublock... But the rest stinks.

I ran the Browser in an ad-hoc network namespace to make sure that this traffic only comes from Mullvad browser.

I see google, cloudflare, fastly... edgecast

also who is edgecast?

Do they have any sort of agreement with these companies? Do they tell their users about this?