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Mozilla’s VPN is free, limited, and not really a VPN

Jason Weisberger
Mar 19, 2026
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Mozilla headquarters in San Francisco. Photo: hakanyalicn / Shutterstock

Mozilla Firefox is rolling out a “free VPN” that promises to hide your IP and add a layer of privacy with zero effort.

In reality, it’s closer to a lightweight browser proxy than a true VPN. This is more like a simplified, corporate-friendly version of Tor Browser, but without Tor’s …

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