The biggest thing I was hoping for was it to be integrated more tightly with Firefox. But it was just like any other VPN where you download a separate software.
I’ve seen that Mozilla VPN ad in the Firefox Containers extensions and was pretty excited for at least that integration…but it was less useful than I thought. The expected behavior I wanted was to have no VPN, but then when I open a specific container, run that container through a VPN connection. But instead you have to have your Mozilla VPN on all the time and all the integration really does is allow you to change your location for a certain container.
I was disappointed some months ago, when I saw it supports only a handful of countries. mine not included. Even worse since Mullvad, that it supposedly uses, is available just fine, and I used it for a little.
meh, im happy to get mullvad for a fiver a month and chuck mozilla some non-google cash. it covers the basics and its mostly the nice-to-haves that are missing.
the team seems to be really understaffed tbh, i think thats the main issue really - i agree that feature would be amazing.
theres been a couple issues ive made on the github that would make using it on linux easier but they seem to have maybe 1 dev covering linux tagged issues.
The only real benefit of Mozilla VPN is that you can set specific containers to always open with a specific exit location. So I have a tmp container that always opens in Canada for things like Youtube videos I want to watch but not be counted as part of my watch history (I don’t need trash celebrity news to start being recommended to me). That’s about it, though.
I canceled because the iOS app completely broke on iOS 16 and it took Mozilla forever to realize there was a problem despite multiple support requests and tanking reviews on the App Store. I canceled after a month but I’m pretty sure it took them 2+ months to roll out a fix.
Not, for exactly the same reason as you. I figured it’d be a fully browser-integrated per-container thing so I can send some traffic through the VPN and some not. Nope.
It does everything I need it to, quickly and quietly, and nothing more. It’s such a breath of fresh air coming from NordVPN, which was the definition of bloat…
It’s cheap and works, good enough for my needs as someone who only occasionally needs a VPN. I did find myself wishing the Android app supported AndroidTV as that seems like a solid use-case for getting around geo blocks on streaming apps, but there only seem to be a couple VPNs that actually support AndroidTV.
I’m just not. I’ve consistently had problems because of domains recognizing the proxies it uses as having a history of spam, so I’ll have to log in repeatedly, sometimes every single time I attempt to use certain websites.
There was this one time I think my phone got hijacked overnight while it was playing Youtube videos, as I listen to them to sleep. It was on some completely different app or website I didn’t recognize, and since I panicked and closed it and there was no internet history associated with the event, I couldn’t find it again.
Also, the Android app for my Note 10 has been extremely hit or miss. When I first installed it, it worked great, and stayed on consistently. After a while it just started getting dropped I assume by the way my phone’s settings are set.
For all the problems I’ve had with it, I just don’t care to troubleshoot it or keep paying for it.
My logic though was that Mozilla VPN is something that is advertised to us through the Firefox browser. You’re probably not going to hear about it (or care about it) unless you use Firefox. So feels like something natural to discuss among Firefox users.
Yeah this is very annoying for me. Australia isn’t included for some reason, nor many other countries. I keep getting ads and emails about it just to find, nope, I’m still not allowed to use it. Getting on my nerves by this point - why the delay? And why send emails to all your subscribers when only a portion of them are even allowed to use it?
It’s not so much that they’re understaffed, but that they are paying the mismanagement team a fortune and not hiring people with the money they’re getting.
Mozilla, at this moment, reminds me of commodore’s final act, where the management decided not to invest in anything and just reward themselves with fatter and fatter paychecks until the company went bankrupt, at which point they sold the assets to various ragtag outfits who never did anything with them.
Mullvad user here, mullvad’s app is good, even includes a basic firewall ad blocker, mullvad also allows advanced features like port forwards and manually choosing between wireguard or openvpn protocols.
