Mozilla is combining its Multi-Account Containers add-on with its VPN service, which helps you to maintain your on-line personas — corresponding to your work and private looking histories — separate.
Multi-Account Containers has been accessible as a Firefox add-on since 2017. It really works to “include” your totally different on-line lives into separate tabs you can label with colours, icons, or names. The containers simply don’t maintain your looking histories — in addition they retailer cookies and monitoring info, which implies you’ll be able to signal into totally different accounts on the identical website simply by clicking over to a different container.
However utilizing the add-on with Mozilla VPN comes with a definite benefit (nicely, at the very least in my possibility): the flexibility to cover your location throughout containers. As Mozilla’s weblog put up explains, you’ll be able to join every of your on-line personas with a distinct server — for instance, for those who’re touring overseas however wish to test your on-line checking account again house, you need to use the add-on to browse for native outlets in a single tab after which handle your private funds from a server close to your hometown in one other.
When mixed with the Multi-Account Containers add-on, utilizing Mozilla’s VPN might help masks your internet exercise much more, because it makes it tougher for servers to trace you based mostly on the place you’re accessing a website from. That makes it a cool technique to see what’s trending on YouTube in two totally different nations directly and an important privateness device for avoiding prying eyes looking for a connection between your totally different on-line personas.
Whereas Mozilla VPN solely got here out in 2020, it could’ve been good if the add-on was supported immediately from the very begin, contemplating simply how helpful it’s, however now it’s right here.
As for Mozilla’s multi-hop characteristic — which was first launched for the desktop VPN again in September — it enables you to route your on-line exercise by way of two totally different servers, additional masking up your tracks on-line. At the moment, the group introduced it’s including assist for the multi-hop characteristic on the Mozilla VPN Android and iOS app.
Mozilla provides directions on how one can add Multi-Account Containers to Mozilla VPN, in addition to how one can activate the multi-hop characteristic on cellular. Though Mozilla VPN remains to be a reasonably new service, distinctive options, like its Multi-Account Containers, would possibly make the characteristic simply accessible to customers with extra critical privateness issues.
Supply: The Verge
