Mozilla has partnered with Mullvad for its own VPN application
What is the selling point over just using Mullvad itself? It also costs 5 bucks per month.
I’m happy Mozilla partnered with them though. I’ve been using Mullvad for a few years now and am very happy. I hope this deal doesn’t somehow ruin the VPN by it being more high profile now.
Firefox Private Network full-device protection is a VPN built by Firefox using global WireGuard servers provided by Mullvad, which has committed not to keep logs of any kind.
So I suppose Proton VPN is not used anymore?
wait is this an actuall vpn or just a proxy?
Pardon for the noob question but does using a VPN reduce ping in gaming?
Like for example right now I play league in NA server from south america and I currently get 95 ping on ethernet.
How much ping would I get if I used a VPN?
Piece of a advice for ya’ll who want to stay hidden in the web. Distrust all Global Sign Certificate in certificate mananger. It will isolate browser from any website that uses it, like google. Do this and it will prevent ip exposure as well. Also disable Telemetry and surf online with vpn on.
Wait what about Cloudflare? Is this faster?
This. I second the concern that this partnership may bring service degradation to Mullvad… but on the other hand it could be a great thing too.
Not much for people already using Mullvad but could bring a lot of awareness to Firefox users who want an easier, built-in solution.
Seems if anything it’s worse than using Mullvad directly since Mozilla is collecting extra information that Mullvad does not.
So I suppose Proton VPN is not used anymore?
Mozilla never never used Proton VPN in any meaningful capacity. They had a short promotional sale period (buy Proton VPN and part of proceeds goes to Mozilla), but there was no direct integration with Mozilla/Firefox. Firefox Private Network is different.
Basically a VPN is an additional network step involving additional routing and additional CPU overhead. It cannot be faster than a theoretical direct link. There can be some exception if your ISP is actively throttling some specific connexions, or maybe there is some edge case that I don’t know about, but a VPN will not increase network speed by itself.
In SWTOR MMORPG i have 50-60 without VPN and 40-50 with VPN. Fiber connection tho. Some VPN servers are pretty laggy even from the same country, so if i see a bad ping i just re-connect.
You could possibly get a small decrease with the right server but with 95 ms (already pretty low) it might be pretty hard. There are “gaming” VPN’s (what the fast etc) but I don’t know if they work that well. You could try one out though!
I play fortnite on vpn all the time and I always get 0-10 ping. Having vpn off didn’t show much difference. Was still ranging from 0-10. No lags no disconnects. Feels like I’m playing on regular connection.
as a league player, it typically ADDS about 10 ping on average because it adds an extra hop in some cases. I turn my VPN off when im playing something so ping sensitive.
There is a very small chance it would but I wouldn’t count on it
The chemistry just wasn’t there?
So who will pay the servers cost or they have to be free for the sake of privacy?
It’s not. Right now it’s in paid beta and for full features you will have to pay according to the Firefox FAQs.
There might be feature limited free version in the future.