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Re:Mozilla VPN by krn on Friday June 19, 2020 @02:37AM (#23571653)
There are many VPN services that begin just by reselling white-label VPN solutions, such as provided by NordVPN[1], because it's much cheaper and easier than building your own globally distributed high-capacity and low-latency network. I hope that Mozilla didn't go down this route, as many suspect ProtonVPN did[2], which Mozilla has partnered in the past with[3]. In fact, given that partnership I wouldn't be surprised, if Mozilla VPN was just a rebranded ProtonVPN service underneath. That would bring additional income to Mozilla without taking away any of the development resources from Firefox, and could be seen as a win-win situation by both companies.

[1] https://nordvpn.com/white-label/

[2] https://vpnscam.com/tesonet-data-mining-company-owns-nordvpn...

[3] https://protonvpn.com/blog/mozilla-partnership/

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Re:Mozilla VPN by nnt38 on Friday June 19, 2020 @06:47AM (#23573086)
FYI Mozilla VPN will just be rebranded Mullvad, ProtonVPN is outdated.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2019/12/3/mullvad-partnerships-p...

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Re:Mozilla VPN by krn on Friday June 19, 2020 @08:10AM (#23573590)
Thank you, I wasn't aware of that. I consider Mullvad to be both, a technologically superior product, and a much more trustworthy company than ProtonVPN.
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Re:Mozilla VPN by _rs on Saturday June 20, 2020 @07:56PM (#23588475)
As someone who doesn't really use VPNs, could you expand on what makes Mullvad superior?
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Re:Mozilla VPN by krn on Sunday June 21, 2020 @10:36AM (#23592225)
From the technical point of view, Mullvad was one of the first VPN services to adopt and support the development of Wireguard; it was also one of the first to open-source all of its client-side code.

From the privacy point of view, Mullvad doesn't ask for an email address, accepts payments in cash, publicly states the full names of all the people behind the company, and doesn't pay any affiliate commissions.

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