Comment on Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Exactly. No thanks. Nothing is ever “free”.

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If something is free then you are the product

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    • qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      How does that sqaure away with FOSS?

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      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You are either going to donate, or spread word to others, who will pick it up and donate themselves.

        Money still gets made, its just less opportunistic and predatory.

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      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You are [building] the product?

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• dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They also know it’s you when you don’t use it. I’m not sure how is it worse? Seems like a handy way to go around geoblocks.

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  • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    People’s conception of what VPN actually does is skewed by shady ads. Now they hear VPN and assume it’s suppose to be this unbreakable anonymizer that somehow also secures you from some unspecified dangers.

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    • sakuraba@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      every fucking youtuber is sponsored with those ads i hate this timeline

      its better than betterhelp i guess

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    • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      A VPN to me is a way to prevent my ISP from seeing I torrent and to go around geoblocks. It’s not a privacy tool at all. So yeah, I’m evaluating them from that angle.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Uhm, what? Maybe my ISP knows, but they are regulated (at least here). But VPN is a virtual direct-line to another server.

    And while Mozilla has some telemetry and “experiments”, they don’t track your browsing habits.

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    • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Another server that belongs to the same company as your browser, so they have an access to both ends of the direct line. If you don’t trust Mozilla to be thrustworthy vpn server (which is good, shouldn’t trust anyone), bad news, they already have an access to your whole traffic because they own your browser

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      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        But unlike the VPN server, the browser is on my end and i can make sure it doesn’t rat me out. Coincidentally, my policies.json over the years was almost the same as Waterfox’.

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