{"id":140609,"date":"2019-07-07T12:30:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T09:30:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-07-07T12:30:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T09:30:57","slug":"mozilla-teases-launch-of-apple-news-competitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/mozilla-teases-launch-of-apple-news-competitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla teases launch of Apple News+ competitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- font size selector, BEGIN --><br \/>\n\t\t<span class=\"cfix\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gray small byline\">\n\t\t\tBy <a href=\"http:\/\/appleinsider.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#6c0d010e091e2c0d1c1c000905021f0508091e420f0301\">Amber Neely<\/a>\t\t\t<br \/><span class=\"gray\">Saturday, July 06, 2019, 10:36 am PT (01:36 pm ET)<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<span><span class=\"article-leader\">Mozilla, creator of the Firefox web browser, has begun testing the waters regarding a paid news subscription service it plans to offer later this year.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"article-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos5.appleinsider.com\/v9\/images\/1x1-white.jpg\" alt=\"Firefox gauges interest in paid news aggregation\" height=\"368\" class=\"lazy\" data-original=\"https:\/\/photos5.appleinsider.com\/gallery\/31857-53858-header-image-l.jpg\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos5.appleinsider.com\/gallery\/31857-53858-header-image-l.jpg\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"minor2 small gray\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Mozilla has started probing users to gauge interest in a paid news subscription, stating that a user can &#8220;support the sites you love, avoid the ads you hate.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The service, currently referred to as &#8220;Firefox Ad-free Internet&#8221; would be a direct competitor to <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/19\/04\/02\/apple-news-wrangled-more-than-200000-subscriptions-in-first-48-hours-report-says\">Apple News+,<\/a> which launched in March of this year, wrangling in over 200,000 subscriptions in the first 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla has partnered with <a href=\"https:\/\/scroll.com\/\">Scroll,<\/a> an ad-free news startup to offer this service. Scroll is still in closed beta but says it has ad-free access to websites such as <em>Vox, Gizmodo, The Verge,<\/em> and <em>Buzzfeed.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>The service would include access to audio articles, bookmarks synced across devices, news recommendations, and a news-focused app. It also claims that it will work whether a user is reading news on mobile or desktop, suggesting that it will be tethered directly to the users Firefox account, allowing the service to be used on any browser they&#8217;ve signed into.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.firefox.com\/proxy\/v4\/\">teaser page,<\/a> the service will cost $4.99 a month, which would undercut <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/19\/04\/02\/apple-news-wrangled-more-than-200000-subscriptions-in-first-48-hours-report-says\">Apple News+<\/a> by about $5. 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