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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-22T21:31:02.000Z",
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  "textContent": "> The right to privacy is a human right, so a reason for having a VPN isn't really needed. That said, VPN's also help with not being doxxed, not being tracked, and not being targeted. From whatever it be. Given that it's a good VPN of course..\n\nThe problem is when you basically give the VPN provider your entire Internet behavioural profile on a silver platter. And in the case of free VPNs that is pretty much a guaranteed data harvesting node (remember the old adage \"If you aren't paying for a product then you are the product\"). And since Mozilla has many many business partnerships, a simple line about \"sharing collected data with its partners\" means they can share all of that... So while VPNs can be useful if you don't trust your local networking provider (e.g. public WiFi or your ISP), in all other cases it can be really problematic from a privacy point of view.\nContrary to popular belief, VPNs also usually don't help against tracking/targeting even if you discount tracking by the VPN provider itself. Markers are usually client-side and not IP bound.\nSo that leaves little else other than Geographical location spoofing. That's great if you end up being in the UK and want to avoid age verification, for example, or if you want to access region-locked content. But other than that, proxying through a VPN really doesn't do as much as a lot of people think.\n\n* * *",
  "title": "General Discussion • Re: Firefox 150 comes with a Free VPN",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-22T21:31:02.000Z"
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