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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @01:24PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @01:24PM (#752457)

    Quantum was a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, so why support it?

  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday October 23 2018, @06:28PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday October 23 2018, @06:28PM (#752556) Journal

    Yeah, Quantum (and especially the disabling of pre-Quantum extensions) was the straw that finally got me to quit using mainline Firefox for most uses (I still use it for online banking and at work).

    But I must say they have chosen the name well: Quantum mechanics is known for unpredictable events that happen without an apparent reason other than that they are not impossible. Just like Mozilla interface changes. ;-)

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.