Wonder why privacyguides deleted the post
this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
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Whenever someone says they had a moderator action taken against them, I am suspicious. Some mod teams are notorious, sure, but it's almost always a case of unreliable narration.
I imagine behavior like the allcaps reply above had something to do with it.
Most likely 3 letter agencies are raising flags to get it deleted, and mods seeing the reports just ban without thinking.
I sadly think this is what's happening and even wonder if some forum mods or people there are intelligence. Because why else would this shit keep happening? Privacyguides also has a sketchy origin story if you look far back enough. The really fucked up thing is they are the most well respected guide to privacy and constantly push 3 VPNs, including ProtonVPN after it was blatantly leaking, and it just really makes me wonder... why do they push those 3 VPNs so hard? In theory, they are good VPNs... but what if they are good and also being pushed for a reason? Almost every good independent VPN gets bought out. Half of the VPNs seem to be owned by Kape, AzireVPN got bought out by a US Company. It seems like fewer and fewer VPNs exist that don't have either intelligence connections or links to privacyguides forum. I just don't like it. I don't trust privacyguides anymore.
Just chiming in to say I learned a lot from discussions and links in this thread. Thanks all.
Using JavaScript defeats the purpose of Tor
If you want to do any browsing other than .onions, javascript is required. Tor Browser is supposed to be anti-censorship and anti-tracking and that it isn't really possible for Tor Browser to access 99% of the Internet without javascript.
Also, the Tor organization is not telling people that they can be uniquely tracked when not in safer mode, and Mullvad Browser is copying most of Tor Browser but not including Tor routing in it and many people using Mullvad Browser use javascript.
It's important that people know this and the fact that I've had such a hard time posting this in different places, and have been met with such suspicion and hostility, is sus and makes me wonder if certain people want these browsers trackable. It's fucking nuts to me that privacyguide's forum deleted multiple posts and my mother fucking username after I posted about this. What else other than it being a controlled operation explains that? And plenty of other people have complained about similar shit!
Isn’t Mullvad browser kind of deprecated? Vivaldi is quite good, despite its closed-source UI components.
No, Mullvad is not deprecated at all (are you maybe thinking of Mull?) Vivaldi is Chromium based, that's a no-go: don't support Google's hegemony by any means
Then that’s great, at some point Mullvad’s browser development slowed down and I had the impression that it was abandoned. Glad that it isn’t.
And of course Vivaldi isn’t the best option out there - it’s just one of the least offending Chromium browsers. Mozilla itself isn’t in too great shape either, sketchy politics and they’re on life support from Google funding.
Firefox forks though? Quite good stuff out there. I’ve heard some recent praise for the Zen browser in particular.
And if you’re on macOS, then Orion browser is a great option (and WebKit-based).
I suspect from what you're choosing to say that you've very, very recently started comparing browsers. You should read more before posting about this topic. Your comments are very uneducated.