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https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/10/mozilla-launches-a-vpn-brings-back-the-firefox-test-pilot-program/
Mozilla today announced that it is bringing back the Firefox Test Pilot program to allow users to try out new features before they are ready for mainstream usage. While the name is familiar, though, the overall goals of the new program are a bit different from the last iteration and the focus is less on crazy experiments and more on beta testing products that are almost ready for public consumption.
The first new project in the Test Pilot program is the beta of the Firefox Private Network VPN service, which is now available for Firefox desktop users in the U.S.
Sign up now for a Firefox account today so you can use this totally private free VPN.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Reziac on Friday September 13 2019, @04:06AM (9 children)
My thought is that this 'free' VPN is probably fine for when you just don't want your ISP following you around, like for torrents. But for anything where privacy is life or death? I don't think so...
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by Chocolate on Friday September 13 2019, @04:41AM (6 children)
I started paying for email when Google started screwing with the interface. Its easily worth the small amount per year.
A VPN can be $3 per month, Nord I am looking at you, with a decent service
Are people such tight arses? Its one coffee per month.
Bit-choco-coin anyone?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 13 2019, @04:48AM (2 children)
Pick the wrong, compromised VPN and you could draw more attention to yourself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 13 2019, @09:11AM (1 child)
How does one find out in a manner that does not involve jackboots or blood loss or court appearances?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 13 2019, @01:17PM
You don't! It's a wonderful system of trust.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday September 13 2019, @05:29AM
This link should switch you back to the old GMail interface (yes, the new one sucks):
https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html [google.com]
Me, I have umpteen mailboxes with my hosting, so all I use GMail for is Google crap, like Youtube notifications. Figure I might as well keep all the snooping confined to one place.
Not so much cheap as not convinced I have that much use for a VPN, being neither an oppressed nor a subversive.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 13 2019, @01:37PM
I got a one time payment of $20 (or was it $40) for a lifetime with SVPN.
Though it is a bit unsettling when it displays how much time I have left (Subscription: Lifetime (7543 days), I guess I only have 20 years left on this blue marble.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 13 2019, @02:14PM
ProtonMail [protonmail.com] is free. And you control all the encryption keys.
Just sayin'
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 13 2019, @09:17AM (1 child)
If you want your ISP not to snoop around just vote with your wallet and find an ISP which doesn't. Simple. That's this "free market", isn't it? :)
(Score: 3, Informative) by Reziac on Saturday September 14 2019, @12:40AM
Wouldn't that be great? I have a practical choice of one. Well, there's fixed wireless (cuts out when it rains) and satellite (me and which bank?) but they're not among the practical choices...
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.