[godelski]

I'm curious about the parent's question, but consider that Mullvad is about $5 on its own anyways. It also already supports international customers and multiple platforms. So I'm not sure why you would buy it through FF and not directly from Mullvad? It just seems like a middleman with no benefits.

[ensignavenger]

I would like to buy it through Mozilla in order to support the Mozilla Foundation, because I want to support their work and help them break their dependency on Google for funding.

[godelski]

I can justify this, but I'm wondering why Mullvad doesn't give them a slightly better deal. It is basically the same deal that you get if you pay with crypto, except you -- the user -- lose all the benefits of that. So why not charge something like $4.50? Or $4? They are bringing bulk to Mullvad. One of them, or both, could eat the cost until the price stabilized. I'm sure at Mozilla's scale they could push Mullvad's operating price down.

But the fact is that this does create more links in the VPN, and thus more security risks. Which isn't a big deal for the 99% of us that are just using them to torrent and prevent Comcast from seeing our data, but there's still a principle thing, which is part of why people are jumping from PIA before the merger has even happened.

[Semaphor]

Mullvad is 5€, slightly more

[godelski]

> Mullvad is __about__ $5

5€ is currently $5.54. I'd call that about $5. It's about the same price as if you paid with crypto too.

[Semaphor]

I just wanted to a) mention the exact price and b) that this might be a reason for some to cut out the middleman.