Chris Beard, CEO of Mozilla Corporation, He recently spoke about the intention of the Mozilla team to launch the premium service “Firefox Premium” in October this year. (premium.firefox.com), under which extended subscription services will be provided.
Details about the “Firefox Premium” service are not yet announced, but as an example, the services related to the use of VPN and the online storage of user data are mentioned.
We are working on three sources of income and we want to balance them again: we have Search, but we also make content, Pocket is the example of this, there is also sponsored content. This is the content business.
And the third that we are working on and developing when thinking about products and services is the premium tiers of some of these offerings. You can imagine something like a secure storage solution.
Firefox could create paid versions of its free services
Judging by the comments a certain amount of traffic on the VPN will be free and a paid service will be offered to those who need additional bandwidth.
Paid VPN testing started in Firefox in October of last year and are based on providing access to the browser through the VPN service "ProtonVPN" which was chosen due to the relatively high level of protection of the communication channel, the refusal to keep records and the general guidance not to profit and to increase security and privacy on the web.
About us ProtonVPN is registered in Switzerland, which has strict legislation in the field of privacy protection, that does not allow special services to control the information.
The Firefox browser indicates that when a user is detected using public WiFi and accessing the online banking service, the browser will automatically start the VPN service for their protection.
It is well known that public WiFi does not have any security, so there is a hidden danger when accessing online banking, and a virtual tunnel can be encrypted through the VPN service.
Therefore, users can decide whether to pay for Firefox Premium. to get more VPN usage traffic etc. according to your actual usage.
Firefox Send could have its premium version
Regarding online storage, a start was made within the framework of the Firefox Send service, which is intended for file sharing between users using terminal encryption.
Currently the service is completely free. The limit on the size of the uploaded file is set to 1 GB in anonymous mode and 2,5 GB when creating a registered account.
By default, the file is deleted after the first download or after 24 hours (the duration of the file can be set from one hour to 7 days). Perhaps in Firefox Send, an additional level will be introduced for paid users with an extended limit on size and storage time.
Firefox wants to expand its monetization field
Provision of paid services will help finance infrastructure maintenance resource intensive and will provide the opportunity to further diversify sources of income, reducing reliance on funds received through search engine contracts.
The default use agreement for Firefox in the US. For Yahoo search engine expires at the end of this year and it is not yet clear whether it will expand, considering Yahoo's acquisition of Verizon.
According to currently known news, Firefox will provide some free traffic to all users, and will only be charged when the amount of free traffic is exceeded.
According to Firefox's position, the first is to provide users with a more reliable privacy environment, and then charge, the fee can allow the Firefox browser to maintain development and operation.
The aforementioned services are expected to officially launch around October this year.
Source: https://t3n.de/
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