Chris Beard, CEO of Mozilla Corporation, in an interview with the German publication T3N about plans to launch a premium service called Firefox Premium (premium.firefox.com) in October of this year, which will offer enhanced services with a paid subscription model. Details are not yet disclosed, but as an example, services related to the use of VPN and online data storage are mentioned. Judging by remarks made in the interview, a certain amount of VPN traffic will be free, while the paid service will be offered to those who require additional bandwidth.
Offering paid services will help finance the maintenance of resource-intensive infrastructures and allow for further diversification of revenue sources, reducing on funds from contracts with search engines. The agreement to use Yahoo as the default search engine in Firefox in the US expires at the end of this year, and it is still unclear whether it will be renewed, considering Yahoo's acquisition by Verizon.
Testing the paid VPN in Firefox began in October of last year and is based on providing built-in access through the VPN service ProtonVPN, which was chosen due to its relatively high level of connection security, its refusal to maintain logs, and its overall focus not on profit, but on enhancing security and privacy on the web. ProtonVPN is registered in Switzerland, which has strict privacy protection laws that prevent intelligence agencies from monitoring information. ProtonVPN is not on the list of 9 VPN services that are blocked in Russia due to unwillingness to connect to the registry of prohibited information (ProtonVPN has not yet received a request from Roskomnadzor, but the service initially stated that it ignores such requests).
As for online storage, it began with the service , za izmenjavo datotek med uporabniki z uporabo končnega šifriranja. Storitev je trenutno popolnoma brezplačna. Omejitev velikosti naloženega datoteka je 1 GB v anonimnem načinu in 2,5 GB ob ustvarjanju registrirane uporabniške računa. Privzeto se datoteka izbriše po prvi nalaganju ali po poteku 24 ur (čas trajanja datoteke je mogoče nastaviti od enega ure do 7 dni). Morda bo v Firefox Send uvedena dodatna raven za plačane uporabnike z razširjenim omejitvami glede velikosti in časa shranjevanja.
Izvor: opennet.ru
