Mozilla CEO says Firefox plans to offer monthly paid premium service

by r0bz

Chris Beard, CEO of Moziila, a developer of Web browser Firefox, revealed in an interview with the German media that he is considering a monthly premium service as one of his new business plans. The contents of the service are VPN service and cloud storage service etc., and it is said that it will provide it from October 2019.

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Mozilla says paid subscription service is coming to Firefox-The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/10/8660344/firefox-subscription-paid-service-vpn-cloud-storage-release-date

In an interview with German media t3n, Beard clarifies that Firefox gets about 90% of revenue from search business. In order to rectify the situation in which the browser market competitor Google relies on revenue, the company announced that it will focus on paid plans and content businesses that offer premium services on a monthly basis.

In October 2018, Mozilla partnered with VPN provider ProtonVPN to provide experimental VPN service with Firefox. Some of the tested users were able to use VPN service through Firefox, paying $ 10 a month (approximately 1,100 yen) to access ProtonVPN. The premium service seems to include this VPN service.

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Also, in an interview, Beard stated that 'it looks like a secure storage solution,' and said that he plans to offer cloud storage service as part of premium service.

In the content business, Moazilla plans to offer content curation and sponsored content through Pocket , which it acquired in 2017.

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Baird, CEO of want to 'clear already is that is not going to claim the money to users who are using the free browser. Expand the monthly paid plan in prospect in October 2019, premium service Provide. ” Also, a Mozilla spokeswoman told t3n, 'We will carefully consider which model makes the most sense while ensuring maximum user safety. Use of a web browser, privacy protection, etc. There is no doubt that many services and security features will remain free. '