The company’s already experimented with a VPN service by partnering up with ProtonVPN and offering a $10 subscription. Now, the company’s thinking of offering some amount of free VPN bandwidth to get you started, and then charge a premium for metered access in the form of a monthly subscription. Beard specified that there’s no plan to charge users for current features that are free: There’s no word on pricing just as of now, but a privacy-focused premium version of Firefox sounds like an enticing offering, at a time when it’s hard to avoid being tracked on your digital devices, and when data leaks are rife. We’ve contacted Mozilla to learn more, and will update this post when there’s a response. Update (June 11, 2019): Dave Camp, senior vice president of Firefox at Mozilla, said in a statement that paid products are indeed in the works:
