Mozilla is using the open-source WireGuard protocol – the company says both its API and client code is open-sourced. This will be put to the test as Mozilla has commissioned a third-party audit of its VPN and says it is planning to publish this when it is complete later this year. “If any government asks for data, there's nothing to see on the VPN servers. “There’s no in product analytics, we don't embed mobile analytics or anything inside, and we think we've seen that some other VPN products, we have non-logging VPN servers,” Seligman says. In the past year at least two VPN providers have handed information to law enforcement that has been used to identify people. It’s something that would seem obvious for a product that is designed to protect privacy but historically has not always proved to be the case. To use the VPN you need to have a Firefox user account but Seligman says work has been done to ensure the VPN collects as little data as possible. If you’re using the VPN on mobile then the data that’s being sent from the apps you’re using – Facebook and Gmail, for instance – will identify you as being somewhere else. Seligman explains that the VPN encrypts all device traffic and not just data that travels through a browser.

Mozilla’s VPN connects to access points in 31 countries and 279 cities within them.

The app for iOS is in beta trials still, with macOS and Linux versions due to launch in the coming months. The VPN is initially being made available on Windows and Android devices. There is one button that lets people turn it on and off. As a result the company’s VPN is straightforward. “We put user privacy, trust and security first,” he explains. Seligman says that Mozilla’s aim has been to create a VPN that is fast and simple.

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