Firefox Now Has Free VPN

kgwxd

Gross. Browser, tracker blocking, and VPN should ALWAYS be different entities. Forever and always. Their incentives are misaligned at a fundamental level. My machine is the module that should tie the various components together how I see fit. What company runs this VPN? One of the awful ones I assume?

ChrisArchitect

Some previous discussion ahead of the announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47434567

everdrive

Another useless distraction which is only nominally privacy-focused while the core browser continues to lose market share.

tetris11

This seems like a win for user-privacy and also that potential independent revenue stream (freemium 50GB vs premium) they've been chasing since Google search became their only goose. They should have done this years ago, but I applaud them for doing it now. I'm not clear on why the naysayers are against this.

vfclists

Is their VPN provided by some other company?

m-p-3

> in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and France