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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: 1) by Chromium_One on Tuesday October 23 2018, @07:01PM (1 child)
Post title doesn't state it clearly enough? The new "shield studies" have their own settings for opt-out which are only found under "about:config" rather than the normal user preferences UI. While I had studies disabled, a new shield study was helpfully installed for me after a version upgrade. While researching what happened with that, I found posts suggesting this should only have been the case with dev versions. Stopped looking once I found the options to twiddle in about:config.
When you live in a sick society, everything you do is wrong.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 26 2018, @09:46AM
The only related one pref I can find is app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled. Apparently set it to false to get rid of whatever guinea pig action it controls. That one can be changed via the menus too, preferences, security, Allow Firefox to install and run studies.
Now is there some other pref I should toggle?