The famous Mozilla Firefox web browser will soon be equipped with a VPN system made by MIT, the cost to use this tool will be $10 every month
Mozilla wants to make its Firefox web browser grow as much as possible and to do so it will implement in the search engine a VPN system to protect the cybersecurity and privacy of its users.
For quite some time Mozilla has been trying to improve the cybersecurity of its web browser. For example, with the launch of the Container extension it has allowed its users to limit data collection by Facebook, and thus reduce the damage caused by various security scandals such as the one related to Cambridge Analytica. To further improve privacy and malware defense Mozilla has now decided to integrate on Firefox the Virtual Private Network service offered by ProtonVPN. For those who don’t know it, this is the VPN tested and created by scientists at MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Thanks to ProtonVPN the various users on Mozilla Firefox will be able to surf without leaving any traces and with anti-malware security protocols.
How to activate ProtonVPN on Mozilla Firefox
To activate ProtronVPN as a tool to defend our browsing, Mozilla will require its US users $10 per month. A subscription that will most likely be converted to 10 euros/month once the MIT VPN on Firefox will be introduced in the European and Italian market as well. Mozilla has not yet made it known if and when its VPN will be extended to all its users, the company says that for at least a few months the service will be tested only in the U.S., but obviously the desire is to include the web browser with VPN included in the computers of users in other countries outside the United States.
It is not said, however, that most European users will take well the choice to pay for the service in VPN. In fact, in Italy, as well as in other EU countries, there are several free VPN services for the security of our online browsing. Like for example the free VPN of the Opera web browser. So Mozilla will have to be good at proving that the additional privacy and fraud-fighting services on ProtonVPN are so efficient that users will pay 10 euros every month to use Forefox with VPN.