Mozilla Firefox is getting a free built-in VPN, with a catch

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• eleijeep@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  max 50Gb is the catch

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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)…

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  • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• fodor@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

  Ouch.

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  • signup@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    brave is better

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    • snowykitty@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I love crypto slop being enabled by default in my browser

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    • XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Interestingly Brave just landed on the charts. Previously it was unrecorded or difficult to see. In the same time period, it now accounts for 1.37% of all desktop browser usage, 0.91% of all browsers.

      That’s not far off from Firefox (which enjoys 2.29% overall). That’s nearly 40% the reach of Firefox across all browsers, almost 33% as successful on desktops alone.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  More features I won’t use!!

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• elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Vivaldi has had a “light” proton VPN for a while.

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And this is relevant how?

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

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    • RejZoR@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I consider Vivaldi as my backup choice if there is ever something to happen to Firefox. I’ve tried it several times and it’s fine, but I still just prefer Firefox. It just works better.

      What annoys me is that Vivaldi entirely depends on Google’s extensions store and that sucks. For that I actually like Opera more as they have their own that is not controlled by Google, but the browser has few really dumb issues and design choices, like why is fucking Google Search the only option in Start page?

      So, yeah almost no matter what I try there’s just always something dumb and I then return to Firefox.

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    • elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Blink trash?

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