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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 bu

by krn 6y ago

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/ https://nordvpn.com/white-label/ [2] https://vpnscam.com/tesonet-data-mining-company-owns-nordvpn-protonmail-protonvpn/ https://vpnscam.com/tesonet-data-mining-company-owns-nordvpn... [3] https://protonvpn.com/blog/mozilla-partnership/ https://protonvpn.com/blog/mozilla-partnership/

nnt38 6y ago
FYI Mozilla VPN will just be rebranded Mullvad, ProtonVPN is outdated. https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2019/12/3/mullvad-partnerships-page-has-been-updated-mozilla/ https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2019/12/3/mullvad-partnerships-p...
- krn 6y ago
  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.
  - _rs 6y ago
    As someone who doesn't really use VPNs, could you expand on what makes Mullvad superior?
    - krn 6y ago
      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.

by krn 6y ago

nnt38 6y ago

FYI Mozilla VPN will just be rebranded Mullvad, ProtonVPN is outdated. https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2019/12/3/mullvad-partnerships-page-has-been-updated-mozilla/ https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2019/12/3/mullvad-partnerships-p...

krn 6y ago
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.
- _rs 6y ago
  As someone who doesn't really use VPNs, could you expand on what makes Mullvad superior?
  - krn 6y ago
    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.