# 'Mozilla VPN' Launches in Six Countries

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**Created:** [July 19, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/mozilla-vpn-launches-in-six-countries/96891 "2020-07-19T22:09:16Z")\
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“Starting today, there’s a VPN on the market from a company you trust,” [Mozilla announced Wednesday](https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/07/15/mozilla-puts-its-trusted-stamp-on-vpn/).

Mozilla VPN is now officially available for [Windows](https://vpn.mozilla.org/?utm_source=blog.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=mozilla-vpn-v1-0-announcement) and [Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox.vpn&referrer=utm_source%3Dblog.mozilla.org%26utm_medium%3Dreferral%26utm_campaign%3Dmozilla-vpn-v1-0-announcement) in six countries: the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Singapore, Malaysia, and New Zealand, and it’ll be coming to even more countries later this year, [reports the Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/15/21325316/mozilla-vpn-android-windows-launch-firefox-private-network-price): _The service is available for $4.99 a month, and, like other VPNs, it’s designed to make your web-browsing more private and secure. As part of the move, the service is being rebranded from Firefox Private Network to Mozilla VPN, a change that was [announced last month](https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2020/06/18/introducing-firefox-private-network-vpns-official-product-the-mozilla-vpn/)._

 

Mozilla argues that its VPN service has a couple of advantages over its many competitors. It says it should offer a faster browsing experience in many cases because it’s based on a protocol with less than a third of the lines of code of an average VPN service provider. The company is also banking on the reputation it’s built up with its privacy-focused browser, and it adds that it [only collects the information it needs](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/principles/) to run a service and doesn’t keep user data logs.

_The VPN’s launch follows beta trials in the US, which also included tests of a VPN [built directly into the Firefox browser](https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/11/20861381/firefox-testing-vpn-mozilla-private-network-test-pilot-program). Last month, Mozilla announced that it would be [testing asking users to pay $2.99 a month](https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2020/06/09/next-steps-in-testing-our-firefox-private-network-browser-extension-beta/) for unlimited usage of the extension, which is designed to mask your traffic within the browser rather than at a system-wide level._