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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.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @05:58AM (9 children)
Hyperbole much? Nothing stops anyone from running either add-on in palemoon.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @06:03AM (8 children)
PS - All that happens with noscript is that a message appears over it in the add-ons manager saying that it may cause stability problems, the original message everyone got their panties in a knot over was the default message mozilla uses in firefox that was kept as-is at the time.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Arik on Tuesday October 23 2018, @06:28AM (5 children)
Which is a lie along the lines of 'failing to eat your spam may cause erection disorders.'
Well, no, there's absolutely no evidence for it, no reason for any reasonable human being to believe you, ahh but so clever we used 'may!' *rolls eyes*
Noscript causes no stability problems. Scripts cause all kinds of problems, including stability problems. Noscript fixes those problems.
Noscript would not be necessary, were browser sane.
Noscript is necessary.
Browser would be sane, if browser authors were sane?
Not sure, but it seems likely.
Ergo, browser authors likely insane.
And this explains so much, so clearly.
But the questions remain, can one write a browser without going insane?
And is Sir Tim Berners-Lee a great human being? Or the viscous incarnation of the thing that should not let it be [youtube.com]?
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @07:22AM
And yet, none of this is stopping you from using noscript in palemoon.
PS - whether noscript causes stability problems or not is impossible to reliably ascertain without in-depth testing. It may look like it doesn't, and as someone who has used it since it's inception I'd also err on that side, but there's no telling what havoc it can wreak as a result of PEBKAC colliding with badly designed scripts. It doesn't help that PEBKAC prone users are quicker to blame the browser than the extension or the website or their own usage of the latter two (although, this too is unsubstantiated - nobody has ever statistically tested this, unless gut feelings by upset developers count as statistics).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @09:55PM
Switch to Umatrix.
Life on the net is so much happier afterwards.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday October 25 2018, @03:26PM (2 children)
Likely not insane, but high probability of greed.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday October 25 2018, @03:38PM (1 child)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday October 25 2018, @04:41PM
Mozilla offering a service deal, isn't insane greed. Though, it may be revolting and enough to push some people to other more invasive, less functional, and/or untested Web Browsers. I'm also uncertain of what insane greed would be as opposed to someone just being insane and greedy at the same time.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @06:32AM
Blacklist Arik. Blacklist most of SoylentNews. Problem solved. Unless Firefox is not letting me. In that case, blacklist firefox, and their Anti-gay Mormon sponsers! This is what killed Wordperfect for me! Damn Orson Scoot Card Mormon kill-bot Death-Angels and the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Never trust Mormons, or the equivalent, Saudi Crown Princes. They both will kill you dead, and leave your once favorite browser a pile of data-aggregating filth. Who do you trust in your wallet?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @09:19PM
They used the message saying [archive.org] thhat NoScript "is known to cause security or stability issues," the same message Mozilla uses for malware. [malwarebytes.com] Their reasoning seems to be that "many websites breaking" is the same thing as instability. I don't agree.