Mozilla is finest recognized for its Firefox browser, however in comparison with rivals, it’s not almost as in style. As a part of the corporate’s efforts to show its consideration again to Firefox, a number of of its standalone merchandise are taking a success—together with a few stellar ones that supplied further anonymity on-line.

As reported by TechCrunch on Tuesday, Mozilla is “scaling back” its consideration to Mozilla VPN, Relay, and Online Footprint Scrubber, following the layoff of roughly 60 staff. It additionally will pull again on its mozilla.social Mastodon occasion, which will probably be run by a smaller workforce, and shut down Hubs, its 3D digital world. These modifications come shortly after the appointment of a brand new interim CEO.

In an inner memo, Mozilla outlined its new effort to concentrate on Firefox as soon as extra—particularly to additional infuse AI into the browser, saying its Pocket, Content, and affiliated AI/ML groups will probably be engaged on “finding great content.” Currently, Firefox recommends articles from Pocket in new tabs when left on default settings, lots of that are long-form options protecting normal pursuits like cooking, well being, historic figures, and science.

Currently, no modifications are being introduced for Mozilla VPN and Relay, in accordance with a consultant from Mozilla. Mozilla Monitor Plus, which scrubs your data from data broker sites, is a separate providing from Online Footprint Scrubber and in addition not affected by the layoffs.

If you’re a Mozilla VPN, Relay, or Monitor Plus subscriber and are nervous concerning the information, there’s a potential silver lining. Both the VPN and Monitor Plus are powered by associate firms (Mullvad for the VPN, and OneRep for Monitor Plus), so the providers received’t go utterly beneath if Mozilla shutters its branded variations of them. Meanwhile, Relay customers can flip to DuckDuckGo’s unlimited email masks to cover their e mail deal with whereas on-line. It works just like Relay, together with integration with password managers like Bitwarden—besides it’s solely free.