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Re:Our Year in Review: How we’ve kept Firefox working for yo... by godelski on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:29PM (#25586985)
The cloudflare thing is encrypted DNS, which I'm not sure Mozilla should be running it's own DNS. You can easily opt out our use your own DNS, but what's the better option? Google? You're ISP (Comcast? Lol!)?

The Mullvad (VPN) thing is completely optional and you have to opt in by paying money. You are not required to use a VPN. I'm not sure why anyone is even remotely upset by this at all. What's the issue? Honestly, I don't understand.

Both these companies have good track records. I'm not sure what the issue is here. #2 seems to be my only concern.

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Re:Our Year in Review: How we’ve kept Firefox working for yo... by ddevault on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:37PM (#25587072)
The VPN game is a grift. It's based on using fearmongering to sell services people don't need without adequately explaining the tradeoffs and risks. I lump it in the same category as multi-level marketing scams, and it's not something Mozilla should be involved in.
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