While Firefox search-ad deals with Google is one of the major ways the nonprofit web company, Mozilla brings in revenue, the company is testing a virtual private network (VPN) service offering to see if users will be willing to pay to get better privacy.
The VPN service will ensure that internet traffic from Firefox and the server is encrypted to better thwart the efforts of any third party to snoop on its users online activity.
Mozilla is partnering with the Switzerland-based ProtonVPN, which VPN service will be available for Firefox on Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS and Android; albeit the company is currently testing the offering with a small portion of Firefox users in the United States.
The issue of privacy is one that has overtaken the Internet service providers lately, and has often been a great bane for most internet users; Mozilla is harping on this new approach to secure the personal information leakable in scenarios like data breaches and the eavesdropping.
And perhaps, Mozilla is only trying to find out if your privacy will worth anything to you; if you are ready to pay $10 a month to get a better privacy cover.
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