[HN Gopher] Firefox Now Has Free VPN
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Firefox Now Has Free VPN
Author : fny
Score : 20 points
Date : 2026-03-24 20:06 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (blog.mozilla.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (blog.mozilla.org)
| kgwxd wrote:
| 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?
| vsgherzi wrote:
| This seems unfair. You can choose to enable the vpn or not.
| Free vpns are notoriously awful and ad ridden. Mozilla is
| providing a genuine high quality free vpn. Many parts of the
| world experience censorship and don't have the means to
| purchase a real vpn. For the record I believe the upstream
| provider is Mullvad. I don't always agree with Mozilla
| leadership but that doesn't meant we should disparage them for
| trying to provide interesting features to users.
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Some previous discussion ahead of the announcement:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47434567
| everdrive wrote:
| Another useless distraction which is only nominally privacy-
| focused while the core browser continues to lose market share.
| tetris11 wrote:
| 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.
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