Good FireFox integrated VPN

VPN
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FireFox on x86_64 GNU/Linux

For my “normal” browsing, I don’t need/want a VPN. I’m smart enough to know all a VPN does is shift possible snooping from my ISP to the VPN provider.

For some of my browsing though, I use a different FireFox profile that both deletes all cookies/data upon closing and connects through the free browsec VPN add-on, set to use a US IP address.

The reason I do that is for certain topics I need to research (e.g. but not exclusively a mental health issue), I’m tired of those topics impacting the advertisements I see during my normal browsing, that even show up on my effin Roku while watching TV. Researching those issues needs to be done completely separate from anything that gets tied to my “normal browsing” identity. Since I started using that profile set up with browsec, advertisements related to sensitive topics I search for during “normal browsing” have stopped happening.

browsec is a bit slow, but that’s okay, however I’m increasingly having issues where I can’t connect to a site because it thinks I’m a bot, sometimes with an explanation that abusive bot activity has come from the same IP address range.

Understandable, it’s a free VPN service, bots likely do abuse from that IP address range.

What commercial VPN integrates well with a FireFox profile so that launching that profile always connects through it, other profiles don’t connect through it, and it doesn’t have the issue of being blocked?

I don’t care about streaming services being blocked, I don’t use any paid or region-restricted service in that profile, but normal informative web sites I do care about being blocked.

Thank you for information.

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You can integrate Mozilla vpn with Firefox and set different locations for each tab

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ProtonVPN has a Firefox extension which should work similar to Browsec. Also if you’re not using it already, you should download uBlock Origin, it blocks a lot of tracking.

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I don’t need different locations in different tabs but it’s cool that it can do that.

Does it work in just one profile where it’s always active in that profile and that profile alone?

If it’s an add-on then yes, as those are profile specific, but the website for it is a little confusing because it calls it an app which can mean almost anything.

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Not sure uBlock origin blocks anything that Privacy Badger doesn’t already block by default, although the method is different.

The issue is many sites unfortunately refuse to show content if third party content is blocked, privacy badger is easy to disable for those cases but of course then tracking happens.

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It’s a mix between the actual VPN app, and a Firefox addon that allows you to set different locations and use the vpn In different tabs.

That’s most of the info on that