Firefox's built-in VPN outage in Iran — Mozilla blames suspected abuse by third-party apps
- Firefox's free built-in VPN temporarily went dark for users in Iran
- Mozilla cited suspected third-party app abuse for the temporary disruption
- The service has now reportedly been restored
Firefox’s free, built-in VPN went offline for some users in Iran, and Mozilla says the cause was a temporary disruption to investigate suspected abuse of the service by unauthorized third-party apps.
The outage prompted complaints on social media platforms and online forums. Users in Iran said the VPN — free and one of the best VPN options in Iran because it needed no extra software — first stopped connecting and then disappeared from the browser entirely.
"It appears that over the past 24 hours, Mozilla has disabled its internal VPN service for users in Iran," one X user wrote on Tuesday, a sentiment echoed across several other posts in Persian and English.
VPNs are by no means a niche tool in Iran...
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