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What payment methods do Mozilla VPN accept? One of the biggest deal breaker for me are the payment methods. In example Proton VPN only accepts Credit Card or PayPal, which is a deal breaker to me.
Credit Card only it looks like. Mozilla VPN is just a wrapper around Mullvad (it uses their servers and technology) so I would recommend getting that. Mullvad accepts a lot of more bespoke payment methods (crypto, wire transfer, cash in an envelope). The main reason to get Mozilla VPN is to bundle it with Mozilla's other services.
...or contribute to Mozilla's work while getting something in return.
of which is not the best idea because Mozilla is a circus of messed up priorities
the mozilla foundation is largely responsible for the whole adtech and ai slop nonsense that nobody asked for
the mozilla corporation is responsible for firefox. there is no way to support firefox development
What a truly stupid thing to say. Google is responsible for that - and the Tech companies, who fired their ethical departments, to release AI without given any thought to the damage is has done, and will do.
The only thing the mozilla foundation deserves is a red hot iron prod up the arse.
Why?
I completely forgot Mozilla VPN was based on Mullvad. Thanks for the reminder, I'll look into it.
Yeah, it's only worth it if you want to buy their other services, like email masks, etc. (which you can also get for free with a service like addy.io).
addy.io has many paid-only features I recommend unbox.at it has unlimited free aliases and the owner is very kind and hosts over 70 other services and all at free, so I donate $10 a month to him
Addy has way more than 10 free ones. I currently have 43 active aliases, and I'm on the free tier. You may be getting confused in that you can only forward 10MB of emails a month for free, and only to a single address. I've never run up against that cap in the six months I've been using it, but everybody's situation is different. Obviously, it wouldn't work if you need to forward big attachments or something.
Good to know there's alternatives, though!
Edited to change it to many paid features
So I would assume you're up on what's what with unbox. I noticed on the homepage that there's a link to addy.io at the bottom. Is there some kind of affiliation?
No it means they are using addy.io's software since it's open source
Ah, okay. That's why it feels familiar. Thanks!
Just use duckduckgos alias it's unlimited
I don't like them for the 2022 Microsoft deal and the fact that they are American but for people that aren't nearly as picky it's a good option
Yeah that's fair
Note they won't prorate anything, so if you want to cancel a year sub two months in, you're stuck with it the whole year.
no, it also accepts cash and bitcoin
You mean Proton VPN accepts cash and bitcoin? When I lookup at https://account.protonvpn.com/signup?plan=bundle2022&billing=12¤cy=EUR , the only offering for me are Credit/debit card and/or PayPal.
There is a support page : https://proton.me/support/pay-with-bitcoin
in that menu, yes.
but when you go to make an account and upgrade it to free, the two options are there.