Microsoft is reportedly about to add a free VPN directly to its Edge browser under the name Microsoft Edge Secure Network. Like what is offered by the Opera browser, the VPN used by Microsoft would be free, but limited to 1 GB.
In a user guide for its Edge browser, Microsoft details how to activate and use Microsoft Edge Secure Network. Reading it, we understand that it is in fact a VPN service that should be integrated directly into the browser.
Thus, the Secure Network option makes it possible to encrypt its navigation data, to warn in the event of tracking and to define a location to cover the tracks, i.e. all the characteristics of a VPN.
The service will be integrated directly into the browser and can be activated in the menu … to item SecureNetwork (probably Secure Network in French). The use of this option, resulting from a partnership between CloudFlare and Microsoft, will be free by connecting with your Microsoft ID, but the envelope of data that can pass through this VPN will be limited to 1 GB. A sufficient quantity to browse occasionally in a secure way, but which will be consumed very quickly if you watch content reserved for a particular country.
Microsoft isn’t alone in opting for a built-in VPN. Thus, Opera offers a similar service in its browser. Mozilla and Brave have meanwhile chosen dedicated applications independent of their browsers. Google, on the other hand, offers nothing for Chrome and users have to make do with third-party extensions.
The launch date of Secure Network remains the only unknown. Indeed, the option is not available in the consumer version of Edge, nor in the Beta and Canary versions reserved for developers.