Microsoft is planning to launch a free VPN service with up to 1 GB traffic per month for its web browser, Edge.

Microsoft Edge Secure Network will operate the VPN through a partnership with Cloudflare, the US-based content delivery and security network and will offer encrypted tunnelling of 1 GB of traffic per month. However, users will be required to sign-in to their Microsoft Account to use it.

Apparently, Microsoft says it will retain the bandwidth data for a month, after which the data is automatically deleted. Cloudflare, which will collect diagnostic information, has a policy of deleting the data every 25 hours.

When the VPN is switched on, which users can do from Edge’s menu, it will also automatically launch the sync service, share bookmarks, passwords and data across signed-in instances of Edge on the user’s other devices.

As a comparison, a free VPN that has a no-logs policy and doesn’t limit the amount of monthly traffic, instead reduces network speeds on the free plan vs the paid-for plans is Proton VPN.

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