Online privacy is a major concern in the tech world, and Mozilla seems to be a pioneer in the midst of Internet companies like Brave, DuckDuckGo, and the rest.
Earlier this year, the Software company introduced an advanced anti-tracking application to help users prevent sites with cookies from spying on them. In 2021, it launched Firefox Relay, which hides a user’s identity by not revealing his or her email address.
And so, in the bid to continue fulfilling its mission, the company says it’s combining the Firefox Add-ons, Multi-Account Containers, with Mozilla VPN, “to offer a unique, privacy solution”. According to the company’s support page, “Multi-Account Containers is a Firefox add-on that lets you separate your work, shopping, or personal browsing without having to clear your history, log in and out, or use multiple browsers.”
Mozilla introduced this browsing extension in 2017. The company says, “instead of opening a new window or different browser to check your work email, you could easily separate that activity in a container tab.” The extension, once installed, also store cookies and trackers enabling you to sign into different accounts on the same site just by clicking over to another container.
The Multi-Account Containers, together with the Mozilla VPN comes with the ability for users to hide their location between containers. In a blog post, the Software company claims you can associate each of your online personas with a different server. The example it gave was if a person is traveling abroad but want to check his or her online bank account back home. The user can use the extension to browse for local shops in one tab and manage “personal finances” from a server near his or her hometown in another tab.
Using Mozilla’s VPN in conjunction with the Multi-Account Containers add-on can help hide your web activity even more, as it makes it more difficult for servers to track you based on where you’re viewing a site from. This makes it a fun way to check what’s popular on YouTube in two separate countries at the same time, as well as a critical privacy tool for evading inquisitive eyes looking for a link between your many online personas.
Although the VPN service was introduced in 2020, it would have been made more sense if the company did the integration from the beginning, seeing the amount of value this gives.
