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Mozilla VPN advantage: a company far more reputable than almost any other VPN provider for doing all the things people say they want a VPN for.

Mozilla VPN disadvantage: Mozilla is probably far less tolerant of all the things most people actually use a VPN for.

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But what's the advantage here? Once Mozilla blesses Mullvad, then... customers already know that Mullvad is good. It's understandable why Mullvad could have a partnership agreement with Mozilla, but it's not obvious why customers shouldn't just bypass Mozilla and go straight to Mullvad with cheaper prices.

If you get the 12 month plan, they are the same nominal amount, but mullvad charges 5 euros and Mozilla charges 5 USD. So depending on the exchange rate, one will be cheaper. Right now and likely for the foreseeable future that is Mozilla.

On the other side, what sort of information do you need to provide to subscribe to Mozilla VPN?

One of the killer features of Mullvad is that their accounts are as anonymous as you can get, up to and including paying with envelopes full of cash.

If you're okay associating your account with a payment method, which would necessarily be the case with Mozilla, then you can pay for Mullvad via their mobile apps and pay $5 monthly.

Mozilla isn't actually providing the VPN infrastructure and bandwidth -- Mullvad, a well-respected Swedish operator, is. I think they run their own ISP behind the scenes.

Brilliant summary. I would need a VPN mostly to visit some sites while spoofing my location, testing my competitions ux in other countries etc.

I can also see because of Mozilla's reputation employers offering these VPN free of cost to their employees.

Disadvantage: injected tie-ins with Comcast shows.

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