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Mozilla Firefox is getting a free built-in VPN, with a catch (www.xda-developers.com)
submitted 2 days ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 74 points 2 days ago (2 children)

max 50Gb is the catch

[–] XLE@piefed.social 35 points 1 day ago

The bigger catch is that the VPN will be routed through Mozilla servers - a company that has not built a reputation for offering their own VPN service (their previous offer just resold Mullvad, which does have a good reputation)...

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So, that's not a lot? I want to use vpn's, but don't know if I can trust any of the free ones. I hear many sell your information to data brokers. I use tor occassionally, but I get endless captchas on firefox afterwards from cloudflare when I do, and a lot of sites refuse to let you one when using tor.

[–] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)
  • Firefox will get a built-in free VPN in v149, rolling out March 24 to the US, France, Germany, and the UK.
  • It routes only browser traffic through a Mozilla proxy for privacy protection, with no extra downloads.
  • Free use is capped at 50GB per month — enough for casual browsing, but Mozilla doesn't say what happens if you go over.
[–] Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Great, now.i have to get a VPN to appear in Germany so that I can use the Firefox VPN

[–] XLE@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Firefox’s desktop marketshare has dropped from 6.3% to 4.2% in the past year.

Ouch.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

More features I won't use!!

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 days ago

OK, maybe better than nothing. Until they start selling more of your data lol.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

So they know it's you all the traffic comes from?

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Vivaldi has had a "light" proton VPN for a while.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And this is relevant how?

If I wanted Blink trash, I would not be using Firefox

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Blink trash?

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

Technically, no, but I don't want a world with just one browser engine.

I remember the dark days of IE6