From 10 November, you can enable the free VPN in Firefox and browse as much as you like, for as long as you like, without needing to worry about reaching the fixed monthly limit.
‘Whether you’re heading home to see family this winter or taking a well-earned break before the year wraps up, we want you to browse with a little more peace of mind’, Mozilla’s LLM-aided blog screed insincerely enthuses.
Mozilla ran a similar promotion in June (when it also temporarily bumped the number of server locations to proxy browsing traffic through to a generous 28). On 1 February 2027, Firefox VPN snaps back to a 50GB monthly data limit.
Making use of the free VPN does require that you sign in with a Mozilla account (that only costs the price of an email address). Per-site exceptions can be set, so that visiting certain websites won’t use a VPN. It also works in private mode.
But Firefox VPN is not a regular VPN. It only masks your activity inside of the browser. To obscure connections from other apps, desktop services, and so on you need a proper VPN – Mozilla happens to sell one, Mozilla VPN.
Unlimited data means you can flip the VPN on for one of the available locations and not worry too much about what you get up to on data-heavy sites like YouTube – set and forget, ahoy (well, until you’re bored of search results in German).
Wow an arse technica article far less trustworthy than Firefox directly saying why they made the change and that they dont sell your personal data to advertisers.
Except that they do sell it and admit they had to remove this promise because some jurisdictions define “sale of data” correctly (which Mozilla claims is "too broadly).
Mozilla freely admits that they sell your data, but supposedly anonymized.
Link me something that explains specifically what you’re referencing. I don’t think they do and I think there is confusion between selling personal data and selling ads not based on personal data.
You could check the link to the article you didn’t read, but felt the need to shit on anyway.
genuine question, what’s wrong with Ars Technica? i think they’re great.