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Mozilla bundles its VPN and email relay services for $7 per month

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Re: Mozilla bundles its VPN and email relay services for $7 per month

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> Mozilla has partnered with Mullvad in order to utilize our global network of VPN servers for its own VPN application, Mozilla VPN, since July 2019. Mozilla uses Mullvad VPN, they built their VPN Client application using wireguard Therefore, it's a VPN Client, not "their VPN", VPN = virtual private network, it's not their "network" Chrome Browser = VPN Client Google Services = VPN Brave made a browser using chromium…

You must be fun at parties.

Will that help us have fun on the moon? or should it be someone else?

Re: Mozilla bundles its VPN and email relay services for $7 per month

#22

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You must be fun at parties.

Will that help us have fun on the moon? or should it be someone else?

No idea what that's supposed to mean but I'm sure it was very clever.

Re: Mozilla bundles its VPN and email relay services for $7 per month

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Will that help us have fun on the moon? or should it be someone else?

No idea what that's supposed to mean but I'm sure it was very clever.

It's not about being clever, it's about being correct

Re: Mozilla bundles its VPN and email relay services for $7 per month

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post #6

What is the best way to support Mozilla/Firefox? I'm happy to sign up for this if it is the best way to contribute to the longevity of the product I use more than anything else.

My poorly informed understanding is that they are not interchangeable.

The Mozilla Foundation exists to support internet freedom. Firefox is a means to that end, but if they fired every Firefox developer and replaced them with a skin on top of Chrome that wouldn't be against Mozilla's goals.

Which means: if you want to support Mozilla you should sign up for this and some of that money will trickle down to Firefox. If you want to support Firefox then you should convince people to use it more.

Re: Mozilla bundles its VPN and email relay services for $7 per month

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> We currently offer Mozilla VPN in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the US.

This list really needs to expand a lot more, and quicker. Mozilla is “literally” leaving money in the table by not serving many other countries. The market size may not be as big, but there is the Mozilla brand name recognition among people who work in tech and there are people who’d like to support Mozilla Corporation directly.

Re: Mozilla bundles its VPN and email relay services for $7 per month

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No idea what that's supposed to mean but I'm sure it was very clever.

It's not about being clever, it's about being correct

There's being correct, then there's being pedantic.

Re: Mozilla bundles its VPN and email relay services for $7 per month

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for mozilla neither, for mullvad probably good, i think many trust the mozilla brand more than mullvad mullvad is an average vpn provider also its important to note, that many question that VPNs provide any security at all , i think for 7 dollars you pay their email relay and phone masking seem like the more interesting feature and value

> mullvad is an average vpn provider I was under the impression that mullvad was best-in-breed. A lot of bad VPN companies running around these days and Mullvad is a clear HN favorite.

Problem is Mullvad is too reputable. I find everything is blocked as their IPs are very well known and on all lists.

Re: Mozilla bundles its VPN and email relay services for $7 per month

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post #19

When the topic of VPN comes up, there are often posts which criticize the use of a VPN for the use case of privacy. These posts are often absolutist in nature and fail to address specific threat models. Of course a VPN isn't going to protect your privacy from state level actors - I doubt that it is possible anyway. Why I use a VPN: 1. I don't want many of the sites I browse to know my IP. 2. My US ISP corrupted my go…

All of this can be achieved through a person VPN rather than a commercial subscription one by ssh -D whateverPort user@ip_address and setting up a SOCKS proxy in Firefox on that same port. >there are often posts which criticize the use of a VPN Often they specifically critique the likes of NordVPN etc. The off the shelf solutions rather than personally setup VPNs. What disgusts me is that they charge fees that are mu…

That's the premium you pay for not having to deal with hosting and configuration. There are plenty of people - even in the tech community - who lack the knowledge to handle this themselves.

Re: Mozilla bundles its VPN and email relay services for $7 per month

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post #19

When the topic of VPN comes up, there are often posts which criticize the use of a VPN for the use case of privacy. These posts are often absolutist in nature and fail to address specific threat models. Of course a VPN isn't going to protect your privacy from state level actors - I doubt that it is possible anyway. Why I use a VPN: 1. I don't want many of the sites I browse to know my IP. 2. My US ISP corrupted my go…

All of this can be achieved through a person VPN rather than a commercial subscription one by ssh -D whateverPort user@ip_address and setting up a SOCKS proxy in Firefox on that same port. >there are often posts which criticize the use of a VPN Often they specifically critique the likes of NordVPN etc. The off the shelf solutions rather than personally setup VPNs. What disgusts me is that they charge fees that are mu…

A basic droplet is $5 this is $7 dollars plus it gives you email relay.

If you already have a droplet unused sure but otherwise being able to change ip in different countries adds some additional value for 2 dollars more.

Re: Mozilla bundles its VPN and email relay services for $7 per month

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> its virtual private network (VPN) it's not theirs, it's mullvad ones https://mullvad.net/en/help/partnerships-and-resellers/

Is that bad, or good?

Mullvad make sure you are totally anonymous, from the payment system to using their servers

Mozilla is a 3rd party with their own account system and payment system, that means you are traceable, you need to register to mozilla

Mullvad doesn't have any account system, and you can pay using cash

is it good, is it bad? it's up to you to decide based on the provided informations

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