• XLE@piefed.social
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      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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      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.

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

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      Mozilla doesn’t say what happens if you go over.

      uses your saved credit card info to charge you in secret, of course.

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

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

    Ouch.

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        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.