There are no public VPNs you can “trust” and saying anything else is an attempt at tricking people.
Not all free VPNs are “bad.” It’s VPNs that make money off the users’ data that are bad.
For example, Proton sells VPN use but they also let you use it for free, albeit with limitations. There’s nothing wrong with the free product that isn’t also wrong with the paid one — some people don’t like Proton for a few reasons, and those reasons are valid either way.
Mozilla is doing the same thing, or at least the VPN business model is the same.
I’m not saying trust them blindly, I’m saying look into it and be open to being wrong and learning.
Didnt say anything about “bad” just that they arent trustworthy.
I’m not saying trust them blindly, I’m saying look into it and be open to being wrong and learning.
There is no way to look into it, thats the issue. No VPNs can be trusted, at all, ever. You can either blindly trust them or not trust them, because you can never actually know what they do on their end.
Lots of text basically saying they simply give users 50 gb free use per month of their Mozilla VPN that you can also pay for: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/products/vpn/
Anybody know if its any good?
Its clear they are trying to attack normal users that dont care what us nerds care about, and frankly, that is fine with me. If they gain market share it makes firefox and its forks more useable on the web. If you care about these thing just use a fork like Librewolf .
Here come the down votes…
Ironically I would be pretty jazzed about a vpn run by fsf.
God, there is no pleasing this fucking community. Some of you are really insufferable.
They seem very confused. They say it’s available for everyone with one click and they also say it’s rolling out gradually.
If you’re a technical user and you don’t have it, does that mean they’re testing it on the rubes first? If so, what does that say about their intentions?
I see
Turn it on in Firefox with a single click.
but that doesn’t say it’s available to everyone?
Yeah I don’t see where to make that single click.
Right, presumably because it’s not available to everyone yet, as they say in the post?
And yet, that contradicts the claims they also make that it’s available to everyone. Even the topic title, which, depending on how you access Lemmy, might show right above this text (at least that’s how it appears for me).
So they announced a feature that isn’t available to everyone, and they do say that, but they also say it is. So why say anything at all? Or say it when it is available?
Can you quote the exact line that you interpret as saying that it’s available to everyone? Because again, I don’t see it. The title I see is “A free VPN you can trust, now built into Firefox”, i.e. with no mention of “everyone”.
Usually, they just say it’s rolling out, because some people will be getting it (i.e. they can’t say nothing), but they don’t know when everybody will yet, because that depends on how well the rollout to the first people goes.
