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Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Firefox’s free VPN will offer 50 gigabytes of monthly data, which is pretty generous for a browser-based VPN. A Mozilla account is required to make use of it, which isn’t a hardship (they’re free), but is a point of friction some may wish to know upfront.

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[–] 125 points 7 months ago (11 children)

Please stop adding bloat to my browser. I have nothing against VPN, but it's not a fucking core feature of a web browser. Put that stuff in an extension that I can install if I want.

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  • [–] 40 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    They should make a "Firefox Core" which contains only the browser with basic features, and then make another version which contains all the "fun" stuff.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    It depends on the country you are living in. There are plenty of people with restricted and surveilled internet.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Sure, but do you think they're going to allow Firefox if it comes with a built-in VPN?

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    How exactly are you going to 'disallow' a piece of software?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    The comment I replied to said: "There are plenty of people with restricted and surveilled internet", so: through restrictions and surveillance, which is how North Korea, China and Russia mostly goes about it. Prohibiting certain pieces of software (or even algorithms) isn't exactly something new — morally wrong, absolutely, but nothing new.

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