At Mozilla VPN stands for Vague Product News: Foundation reveals security product will launch eventually, with temporary pricing, in unspecified places
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/06/19/mozilla_vpn_coming_soon/
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The organisation’s [1]announcement is rather vague, as it says the product will debut “in the next few weeks” and protect up to five devices for $4.99 a month. But that price will be offered “for a limited time” without word of when it will change or what it will change to.
There’s also uncertainty around when the product where and when it will become available. Mozilla says “We are working hard to make the official product, the Mozilla VPN, available in selected regions this year.”
The definite info in the announcement is that: “The VPN will exit Beta phase in the next few weeks, move out of the Firefox Private Network brand, and become a stand-alone product, Mozilla VPN, to serve a larger audience.”
We also know the VPN works on Windows 10, Android, iOS and Chromebooks, with MacOS and Linux support planned. Other certainties are that the VPN tech comes from Swedish outfit [2]Mullvad and uses the WireGuard protocol.
Oh and Mozilla promises that the VPN just does its job and doesn’t sniff anything you do online.
For now the service remains available to US users only, but the beta is now open to all and a [3]waitlist has been established for users in other nations. ®
Sponsored: [4]Modernizing Your .NET Application for Google Cloud Platform
[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2020/06/18/introducing-firefox-private-network-vpns-official-product-the-mozilla-vpn/
[2] https://mullvad.net/en/
[3] https://fpn.firefox.com/vpn/invite
[4] https://go.theregister.com/tl/1956/-8473/modernizing-your-net-application-for-google-cloud-platform?td=wptl1956
In the meantime...
You can always sign up to ProtonVPN.
Probably more secure than the Mozilla one.
Still good to see them enter the field.
I would have thought they'd have stuck with Firefox
Firefox is back to the place where its name needs publicity again and I guess more people vaguely recognise Firefox than Mozilla.
Increasingly, Mozilla feels like two organisations
A highly competent engineering organisation and a much more woolly brand management consultancy. And increasingly, we're only hearing from the latter.
protect up to five devices for $4.99 a month
why would I spend 5 usd per month to a service provider I don't trust? Sure, they're not on level with old hats / usual suspects in privacy violators, i.e. google, fb, ms, amazon, etc.., not YET, but they're salivating to join the club. Only that now, everybody knows to sprinkle their medicine with the usual bullshit like that they consider the privacy of their customers their top priority, and value their privacy above anything else, that the privacy of their customers is the cornerstone of their service. And, that they will never, ever, never-ever, EVER breach their customers' trust. They all say that before they break these empty promises, and repeat them after. Why pay for bullshit? At least, with "free" vpn-like (ok proxy) from the Chinese behind the opera browser, I know (or think I do) what I get for "free" i..e. where this data goes. Or, at least, I can be reasonably sure it will not go west, which is probably good enough. Until they get exposed to sell, on the side, your "private" data to US government. Stranger things have happened, I'm sure ;)
btw, for a fiver a month there's at least one vpn service I can trust, to much higher degree. And no, it's not the privacy-joke of nordvpn (which, on top of their "alternative approach to due diligence", have also been exposed, by their own sloppiness over publicly shared information, to be a product, possibly a by-product of a Lithuanian mothership (forgot the name of that businss). Which, actually, might also be a decoy for a different entity (conspiracy theorists and practicians ahoy!)
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all that said - it doesn't matter. There WILL be plenty of idiots, possibly millions, who
a) have heard there's something going on with "privacy" and in the same breath, a mysterious, silver bullet word "vpn" appears, and
b) there's this Mozilla, cuddly, furry, definitely friendly muppet-like pal of yours, and they offer "reliable & trustworthy" vpn service and
c) click HERE to enter your card details and HERE to activate perpetual service / license.
DONE!
done, indeed.
WireGuard
Well, at least it is an up-to-date, standards based offering.
This all comes down to trust ...
If you want a VPN, you need to trust someone, or you need to have your own VPN that you control ...
If you're willing to trust Mozilla, then this is probably as good as any, but it all comes down to how much you trust them now, and also how much you will trust them in the possible future ...
For me, if I'm on a private network that I control I will not use their VPN, if I'm on any other network I'll VPN to my private network ...