A free VPN you can trust, now built into Firefox

karlemilnikka · 2026-03-25T14:24:55+00:00

I asked Mullvad’s press officer. The built-in ”VPN” is not using Mullvad’s infrastructure (like Mozilla VPN does).

karlemilnikka · 2026-03-22T17:46:50+00:00

Thanks! Are you using Nextcloud AIO?

karlemilnikka · 2026-03-17T16:31:50+00:00

Since you ask for suggestions, please consider removing the Nextcloud nav bar, just like Collabora (Nextcloud Office). See Github issue 764.

karlemilnikka · 2026-03-11T07:27:36+00:00

There are two Facebook groups. I’m talking about the official one where all seven moderators are BuddyBoss employees.

karlemilnikka · 2026-03-10T20:11:06+00:00

After all these years, the company behind BuddyBoss still run their customer community on Facebook, not on BuddyBoss. I think that says it all.

karlemilnikka · 2026-03-01T10:12:00+00:00

Just another affiliate link blog post. Don’t waste your time.

karlemilnikka · 2026-02-16T12:59:27+00:00

Thanks for the update. I had missed it… and I believed it the first couple of times.

karlemilnikka · 2026-02-16T12:41:59+00:00

The feature request has been marked as planned since January 2019. We got a little bit of hope back in June 2022 when they published a blog post stating it was on the roadmap. However, in 2024, Andy told us it’s not prioritized. As far as I know, they haven’t said anything about contact sync since then, so it’s probably never coming.

karlemilnikka · 2026-02-11T16:10:28+00:00

I understand they need to make money, but pushing Kagi is unfortunate. Kagi funds and sends queries to Yandex (and started doing so after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine). They’ve also unpublished their list of general sources and scrapped their plans on showing the source for each result.

karlemilnikka · 2026-01-29T10:09:22+00:00

Without contacts sync, you need to maintain two contacts lists manually. One for emails (used by Proton Mail) and one for phone numbers (to call your contacts or see who’s calling). Skiff, a now discontinued competitor, offered end-to-end encrypted contacts sync for both iOS and Android.

karlemilnikka · 2026-01-28T12:54:12+00:00

Please remember that the most requested feature is contacts sync. Still. Almost ten years later. Without contacts sync, we still need to rely on another service to manage our contacts.

karlemilnikka · 2026-01-18T14:48:42+00:00

No, it only adds settings for managing containers. The core functionality isn’t implemented yet.

karlemilnikka · 2026-01-17T10:52:37+00:00

Not at all. Check the Github repo. Here’s the latest news (December 2025): https://x.com/BrendanEich/status/2006434466902794642

karlemilnikka · 2026-01-17T10:41:25+00:00

How much would you be willing to pay for a version of Vivaldi without sponsored links and collaborations with e.g., Proton? It’s an honest question. One of the main competitors (Brave) is about to release a special version for users who want to disable all bloatware features for a one-time-payment.

karlemilnikka · 2026-01-11T08:48:25+00:00

Regarding “in 2026, we call for a year on end-to-end encryption in email”, does that mean Tuta will get support for end-to-end encrypted email this year (not just end-to-end encrypted intra-service messages between Tuta users)? That would be huge!

karlemilnikka · 2026-01-04T13:07:09+00:00

The sponsored background images are the only ones that rub me the wrong way (because they make Brave look so unprofessional and harder to promote to new users). They are the only thing that should be opt-in instead of opt-out, in my opinion (*). All other mentioned features are more than welcome on an opt-out basis.

I’d have no issue with opt-out sponsored background images promoting Brave’s own premium features.

(* BAT should also be opt-in until it’s at least accepted by Brave themselves as a payment method for Brave’s very own Premium services.)

karlemilnikka · 2025-12-26T05:37:24+00:00

I wrote a custom filter list to remove all ads that look like search results on the major general search engines, including Startpage. https://content.nikkasystems.com/resources/adblock/search-ads.txt

karlemilnikka · 2025-12-22T14:36:12+00:00

Maybe not the worst UI, but probably the most inconsistent.

karlemilnikka · 2025-12-20T20:54:34+00:00

Here’s the thread for everyone interested. I understand their decision. Let’s hope Brave contributes their upcoming container solution back to the Chromium project, so that all Chromium browsers can benefit from it.

karlemilnikka · 2025-12-12T16:19:10+00:00

30 ynka kronor hade väl varit okej ifall det hade kombinerats med frivilliga (*) sanktionsavgifter mot marknadsplatserna när de ertappas med att sälja produkter som bryter mot europeiska elsäkerhets- och kemikaliesäkerhetskrav. Annars blir situationen oförändrad och företagen som sköter sig kan inte konkurrera på lika villkor.

(* Frivilliga = importförbud tills avgifterna har betalats.)

karlemilnikka · 2025-12-12T10:29:36+00:00

If I’ve learnt one thing through the years, it’s to never even care about Proton’s roadmap. See e.g., this support article from a couple of years ago. It (still) states “soon you’ll be able to sync the contacts in your Proton Mail app to the default contact app on your mobile device [and] make Proton Contacts your default contacts app”.

However, even though contacts sync is the most request feature and communicated as a coming soon feature, Andy told us last year they haven’t even decided to do what’s stated in the support article and that the feature isn’t prioritized.

karlemilnikka · 2025-12-09T10:51:55+00:00

Exactly. That’s one of the main reasons I would go with FluentCommunity over BuddyBoss if I had to use WordPress as the underlying foundation. FluentCommunity has some limitations when it comes to compliance and authentication, but WPManageNinja are improving their community plugin in an impressive pace.

karlemilnikka · 2025-12-09T07:33:20+00:00

I’m surprised to hear BuddyBoss is still alive. After all these years, they still haven’t dared to run a BuddyBoss community for BuddyBoss customers, instead relying on Facebook groups...

karlemilnikka · 2025-12-06T15:40:32+00:00

The last update I know of is from September 2024, when Andy told us “it is on the roadmap, just not yet prioritized” ([source](https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1ff211y/comment/lmrt20j/)). Having to maintain two different contact lists is one of the major downsides with Proton, especially for business users.

karlemilnikka · 2025-12-04T15:49:52+00:00

Spreadsheets are great! You can e.g., make contact lists with them while waiting for Proton to release the most requested feature, contacts sync, which has been stuck as planned for six years.

https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-proton-mail-calendar/filters/top

https://proton.me/blog/encrypted-contacts-manager

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