Dynamic Larger Profiles | HydraVeil Release 2.2.5
And two location operators
Misunderstanding
Many have a misunderstanding of screen size fingerprinting. They assume that when a website fingerprints them, that it merely gets the display size they picked, such as ‘1200x800’. But in reality, it gets your unique size down to the pixel. We’ve discussed this in multiple articles on fingerprint-com and our yellow paper.
Smaller Displays
However, many users complain that having smaller display windows from HydraVeil may be annoying. So how can you get the convenience of larger sizes, but the privacy protection of different sizes?
Dynamic Larger Screen Sizes
We are proud to present a new mode for quick profile creation, which when enabled presents many screen size options that are only slightly smaller than your host, in 50 dimension increments. When used in ‘fast mode’, it allows the user to effortlessly and conveniently get profiles that comfortably fill up their host’s display window, but each one is slightly different to fingerprinters.
Fast mode
This can be enabled AFTER ‘fast mode’ is enabled in the ‘create/edit’ options.
Two locations Changed
Additionally, as part of our continued decentralization plan, we are having both direct team contributors and overall community members run VPN nodes. We’re happy to announce that Zenaku has begun running Moldova, and Dr. Zhivago is now operating Singapore.
Zenaku - Moldova
Zenaku is the GUI designer for HydraVeil, the lead developer of ArWeb, and the designer of the Simplified Privacy article and podcast websites. We thank him for contributing to the project, and are happy to have him run the Moldova node.
Zenaku’s Nostr:
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Dr. Zhivago - Singapore
Dr. Zhivago is a community member, Nostr political activist, admin of our SimpleX group, and a HydraVeil alpha tester. His bug reporting and suggestions have helped the project move forward in the early stages. We are happy to have him run the Singapore node going forward.
Dr. Zhivago Nostr:
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Updating Pricing
Unfortunately, due to rising bandwidth prices, we have to raise prices across the board. Not only do we need to pay for the servers, but attract relevant and talented peers to run nodes, which requires a budget. Additionally, we will be rolling out automated cover traffic for profiles, which will consume even more bandwidth than we are now. With all these factors in mind, we are forced to raise pricing for profiles from 1 euro to 1.5 euros (per month).
Summary
All of these changes are reflected in the new update. This has the dynamic larger profiles, new operator changes, and the pricing update.
Download link:
https://api.hydraveil.net/downloads/linux-x86_64/clients/v2.2.5/appimage/hydra-veil-x86_64.AppImage
Verify
If you wish to verify it, you may run this command:
sha256sum [filename]
It should spit out this for 2.2.5:
eed46e20d1e8c8519030169fb931054e6b44abb09e499e2ad8107946718d5c5e
PGP
Please see this text file for a PGP sign.
Gitlab with changes:
https://git.simplifiedprivacy.com/codeking
Tutorials / Help:
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