“Welcome to our enhanced privacy features! Please start by giving us your e-mail or by logging in with your Google or Facebook account.”
Bitch, those are the exact things I’m trying to keep my information away from. And, no, I don’t trust Mozilla as far as I can throw them, either.
I get the point of the post but, they are hosting a VPN service only to paying customers. they need /some/ way of linking an account to a customer, otherwise you can’t verify if who is using it actually paid for it.
yes they could just do like how mullvad does it, give a 1 off account number and if you lose the number you are SOL; but you need to look at FF’s general user base as well. they are trying to advertise this service to their casual userbase for privacy and anonymity while browsing the web. the path of least resistance is via the firefox account, that already likely exists for anyone already using the browser and is already tied into their eco system anyway.
also in my mind, if you don’t trust your VPN enough to have an account on it of some sort of throwaway identifier, you likely shouldn’t use that VPN in the first place. If when you go to sign up your first thought is “should i be giving this piece of info to this service” its not the service for you regardless if they later remedy it.
Still infuriating in the first place but, at least its justifiable infuriating(from both sides) unlike a lot of infuriating, where there isn’t really a good excuse.
Firefox inexplicably turned on sponsored suggestions in my address bar today. I went to type something I normally type, only for it to slot a double-wide amazon ad in its place.
The enshittification continues…
Try waterfox, it is the same as Firefox without the telemetry and the AI shit.
https://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/
I had no idea it was also available on Desktop. I’m using Librewolf on PC
If you are using a VPN you are already putting your trust in the provider not to look at what you are doing. Logging in is the least of your worries if you don’t trust them.
Do you need an account to turn on enhanced privacy features?
Honestly starting to feel like avoiding life changing identity theft is just putting off the inevitable. Like I’m dodging traffic at a train crossing.
I agree with you, I threw my worry about ID theft out the window with the NPD leak 3 or 4 years back. To me it’s no longer a if but a when, and stupidly the US government doesn’t allow you to request SSN change until damages occur and even then its a case by case basis, so the best I can do is wait for something to happen.
