Firefox's new built-in VPN is currently limited to four countries and 50GB of monthly data
  • Firefox 149 is adding a built-in free VPN starting from March 24
  • It has a cap of 50GB of monthly data in the US, UK, Germany, France to start
  • Mozilla is also rolling out a set of new tools to boost productivity
  • Yggstyle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2914·
    2 months ago

    First peddling AI. Now vpns. My money is on they include world of tanks with popups from hello fresh or whatever next.

    Our metrics show that you drive the car to the grocery store once a week… So we started growing kale in your back seat. Just wait until you see our new model the chicken coupe.

    • TheOctonaut@piefed.zipEnglish
      233·
      2 months ago

      Mozilla has had a VPN for years.

      If your only exposure to the purpose of a VPN is via YouTube ad reads, why do you feel the need to contribute to discussion?

      • Yggstyle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        114·
        2 months ago

        I use vpns daily. I’m quite familiar with their use.

        I was pretty obviously poking fun at mozilla for some of their recent choices and rather iffy responses.

        Humor is subjective. Just because a joke doesn’t land for you doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be posted.

    • 37x4H0nUPx0s@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      The VPN that Mozilla (Firefox) has sold for years was rebranded Mullvad. Assuming they’ll still use Mullvad for this, I wouldn’t worry.

      EDIT: I’ve since seen somewhere else that Mozilla may not be using Mullvad for this (just to be clear for anyone reading this later).

      • Yggstyle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I’ll be honest. If it were mulvad that’d be a definite plus… But I’m still pretty opposed to a browser building in hard coded things that should be leveraging their extension / plugin function.

        It reduces attack surface, bloat, and base resource usage and I’d imagine would simplify code. It improves visibility on what has been “added” for users not reading patch notes and neatly dodges potential regulation issues to boot.

        I daily drove firefox right up until the AI issues. It was efficient, transparent, and reliable. I have no issue with them taking money from wherever they can get it. I do take issue with bloatware being opt out: especially when I need to go digging through settings for a new toggle… Only to find out its still wasting resources until you dig in about:config for several more flags.

        Looking forward - I think regardless of our views on where features go and what they do… We all can agree that especially now we should have developers looking to make their apps as efficient as possible. Because at least for the foreseeable future - resources aren’t getting cheaper.