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> it seems to be one of the only ways to support the browser

Is this the case? Is income from Mozilla VPN put toward Firefox development?

If it is, that info should be front-and-centre; they'd have a lot more customers I think.

It supports Mozilla. Browser is pretty important, but they do other things like Rust.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Projects/Complete

"Mozilla" is a complicated entity, and quite a lot of their funds go toward projects unrelated to Firefox (to the chagrin of many Firefox users as much of the donor goodwill toward Mozilla Foundation as an entity comes from Firefox).

There may be some clues in their public accounts but I guess VPN is too new a product to appear their yet https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2019/

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