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"textContent": "Mozilla Firefox is rolling out a \"free VPN\" that promises to hide your IP and add a layer of privacy with zero effort.\n\nIn reality, it's closer to a lightweight browser proxy than a true VPN. This is more like a simplified, corporate-friendly version of Tor Browser, but without Tor's multi-hop anonymity, and with a data cap and geographic limits bolted on. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Mozilla's VPN is free, limited, and not really a VPN appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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