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Sign in for extra privacy (europe.pub)
submitted 5 months ago by [M] to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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"cat looks inside" meme format, top panel screenshot of firefox free VPN beta screen with text "Hide your location while browsing in Firefox." and "Get 50 GB of free VPN data every month." and "Get started", bottom panel screenshot with subsequent signup form with text "Activate Firefox’s built-in VPN for extra privacy and protection" and "Use your Mozilla account to unlock VPN features like hiding your location." and "Enter your email"
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[–] 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I don't know what you were expecting.

You more or less have to have an account to use a paid feature. Especially for a free trial.

It's only Mulvad (which is apparently what Firefox uses under the hood) who doesn't use an email address as an identifier.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    iiuc Firefox uses Mullvad for original paid VPN service but their new freemium one is through Fastly (?)

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    You mean the same Fastly as in CDN? That's a nope for me

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago

    Yep, Fastly the CDN company (doing HTTPS mitm-as-a-service for millions of websites) which Apple also uses (along with CloudFlare) for their similar iCloud Private Relay feature.

    Unlike Apple though, Firefox's new "built-in VPN" does not claim (falsely) to use different providers for ingress and egress.

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