{"id":319631,"date":"2019-09-11T08:27:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T06:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=319631"},"modified":"2019-09-11T08:29:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T06:29:19","slug":"firefox-gets-a-built-in-vpn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/319631-firefox-gets-a-built-in-vpn.html","title":{"rendered":"Firefox gets a built-in VPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla has announced a new extension for its Firefox browser named <a href=\"https:\/\/private-network.firefox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Private Network<\/strong><\/a>, which allows users to easily connect to a VPN without a third-party application.<\/p>\n<p>The service uses a proxy server provided by Cloudflare and requires users to sign in to their Firefox account in order to connect.<\/p>\n<p>Private Network encrypts the web addresses you visit and the data you send to websites, and it hides your location from websites and ad trackers.<\/p>\n<p>The service is compatible with the latest version of the Firefox desktop browser on multiple platforms, and can be removed at any time once installed, just like a standard Firefox extension.<\/p>\n<p>The Private Network extension is currently in a testing phase and is only available to users in the United States.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/318675-3-reasons-your-internet-is-slower-when-using-a-vpn.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">3 reasons your Internet is slower when using a VPN<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla has announced a new extension for its Firefox browser named Private Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":197481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[981,975,15599,18448],"class_list":["post-319631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-firefox","tag-mozilla","tag-private-network","tag-vpn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}