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Mozilla Will Try to Sell ProtonVPN Subscriptions Within Firefox

posted by chromas on Tuesday October 23 2018, @04:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the funding-secured dept.

takyon writes:

Mozilla is going to sell VPN subscriptions within Firefox

Beginning October 24th, the ad will show for select US-based Firefox users who are running the latest version — Firefox 62 — on desktop. If eligible and browsing on an unsecured network, you'll be shown an ad in the top right corner of your Firefox window that prompts you to click through to a sign up page.

Mozilla is offering ProtonVPN's services for $10 a month, which is actually $2 more than if you signed up for the same package directly through ProtonVPN. But, the majority of the revenue from ProtonVPN subscriptions that are processed through Mozilla will go directly to Mozilla. Both companies are banking that people will have good will about paying a little more in order to support their "shared goal of making the internet a safer place."

Also at ZDNet.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Tuesday October 23 2018, @04:43AM (4 children)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Tuesday October 23 2018, @04:43AM (#752347)

    Get the source code and compile Firefox yourself., sans the ads. You do realize it's open-source, right?

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  • (Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @06:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @06:05AM (#752365)

    Palemoon is easy to compile from source too. Once you do that, you'll feel empowered to cut things out you don't care for. It's plenty fast for me.

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Bot on Tuesday October 23 2018, @08:53AM (1 child)

    by Bot (3902) on Tuesday October 23 2018, @08:53AM (#752412) Journal

    But seriously I have to remind you that evil has already countered the personal empowering from free software by making projects with huge interdependence and arbitrary choices (systemd), high rate of incompatible updates (android) and trolling/ instating policing CoC (mik*usa, not gonna evoke its full name)

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @09:46AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @09:46AM (#752420)

      of the dependency hell that Linux and many of its tools have become.

      Go try building the original 'beta' netscape gold releases from before they spent 2+ years on gecko rewriting everything in C++.

      The C++ one was as much if not more nightmarish, and it has only gotten worse with each new revision.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @02:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @02:03AM (#752738)

    I suspect the Debian packages will strip this crap-- Debian forked firefox (iceweasel) before over the copyright on an icon.