Firefox partners with ProtonVPN
I&#x27;m really excited about this idea, but I also think it isn&#x27;t fully baked yet.<p>I&#x27;m excited because VPNs are all about <i>shifting</i> trust: I&#x27;m no longer trusting Comcast not to sell my data, I&#x27;m now trusting SketchyVPN. If SketchyVPN turns out not to be trustworthy, then I&#x27;m paying for something that is worth less than $0 to me, and there&#x27;s no way to detect that as a user. It&#x27;s like paying more for organic food in a town where farm stands are paid to lace organic food with arsenic -- why would you?<p>For VPN service, I trust Mozilla more than to just about anybody: they&#x27;re nonprofit, have clear and transparent governance, have many mission-driven employees, and would lose more than they could possibly gain by breaking the terms of service on a VPN. They also have a big enough profile that it takes no extra effort to stay up to date on how trustworthy they are -- they do make missteps, but every misstep hits the front page of HN, which is exactly what I want. If they run a VPN, I&#x27;m sold that it&#x27;s worth more than $0.<p>But the service isn&#x27;t fully baked yet for me, because they&#x27;re not explaining how they&#x27;re enforcing the trustworthiness of ProtonVPN. I have no idea if ProtonVPN is as trustworthy as Mozilla -- maybe it is, but I don&#x27;t want to learn and stay on top of that. Instead I want premium.firefox.com&#x2F;vpn&#x2F; to convince me that, if I use Mozilla&#x27;s service, I&#x27;m fully benefiting from their trustworthiness.