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New Mozilla bundle includes VPN, Firefox Relay with phone number masking

Source: https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2022/11/mozilla-the-best-gift-for-anyone-who-wants-to-feel-safer-when-they-go-online-mozilla-privacy-products/

Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser, rolled out a new bundled subscription for two of its privacy-oriented products. Now, customers can get Mozilla VPN and Firefox relay for one price.

If you’re not familiar with either product, here’s a quick summary. Mozilla VPN is, well, a VPN service based on WireGuard and Mullvad. The plan covers up to five devices, offers over 500 servers in over 30 countries, and there are no bandwidth restrictions. Importantly, Mozilla promises it doesn’t log network activity and that Mozilla VPN offers device-level encryption. It came to Canada in July 2020 and later expanded to support Mac and Linux.

Mozilla VPN on its own typically costs $4.99 USD per month, billed annually at $59.88 (about $80 CAD) for 12 months.

Firefox Relay, on the other hand, is a web app that lets users create email “masks,” which are alternate emails, so they don’t have to give out their actual email. Relay recently expanded to include phone number masking for those who pay for Relay Premium (which is also included in the new bundle).

Free Firefox Relay users got up to five email masks. There are two tiers of Relay Premium; the first gives access to unlimited email masks and additional features like the ability to block promotional emails or respond to forwarded emails. It costs $1.99 USD ($2.66 CAD) per month or $0.99 USD ($1.32) per month with yearly billing. It jumps up to $3.99 USD ($5.34 CAD) per month with yearly billing to get the phone number masking.

However, with Mozilla’s new bundle, you can get both Mozilla VPN and Relay Premium with phone number masking for $6.99 USD ($9.35 CAD) per month or $83.88 USD ($112.26 CAD) per year. You can sign up for the bundle from either the Mozilla VPN website or the Firefox Relay website.

Header image credit: Mozilla

Source: Mozilla

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Telus, Koodo launch Stream+ bundle with Netflix, Apple TV+, and Discovery+

Telus and its flanker brand Koodo launched a new ‘Stream+’ subscription that allows customers to add a $25/mo bundle with Netflix, Apple TV+, and Discovery+ to their plan.

Telus’ Stream+ service differs slightly from Koodo’s version, as it also includes Telus TV+ and the Vancouver-based national carrier offers a $5/mo discount to customers who get Stream+ when activating or renewing one of its 5G+ or Canada/U.S. Unlimited plans.

Regardless, the main benefit of the bundle is the three included streaming services. Telus breaks down the pricing, noting customers get “Netflix Premium,” which costs $20.99/mo without the bundle, Apple TV+, which costs $5.99/mo without the bundle, and Discovery+, which costs $4.99/mo without the bundle. While the bundle costs $25/mo, all the services on their own would cost $31.97/mo.

Telus Stream+ price breakdown.

Since Netflix offers several subscription tiers, it’s worth noting that Netflix’s website notes what’s included in the $20.99/mo ‘Premium’ tier:

  • Watch on up to four screens at the same time
  • Have downloads on up to four phones or tablets
  • Up to Ultra HD (UHD) quality

Moreover, Telus says that customers who sign up for Stream+ can keep their existing accounts for these services, so if you already have Netflix (for example), you can port your account to Stream+ instead of making a new one. That means you’ll keep your watch history and take advantage of savings.

However, if you’re buying an Apple device, the Stream+ bundle may not be the best deal, at least at first. Apple offers a three-month free trial of Apple TV+ to customers who buy a new Apple device, so you may want to make use of that before getting Stream+.

Finally, it’s worth noting that Stream+ is likely an effort to compete with Rogers and Bell, both of which bundle streaming services with their mobile plans. Rogers offers six months free Disney+ on select wireless plans, while Bell offers 24 months free of its own Crave streaming service (although it’s only the ‘Mobile‘ tier).

You can learn more about Stream+ with Telus here (or here with Koodo).

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Get games and fund cancer research with Humble Bundle’s new ‘F*ck Cancer’ bundle

Humble Bundle is back with an excellent new ‘F*ck Cancer‘ game bundle that will net customers 13 titles valued at about $347 CAD while helping fund cancer research.

For those unfamiliar with Humble Bundle, the platform regularly offers bundles of games with a ‘pay what you want’ model. The amount people pay for the bundle gets divided up between Humble, the game developers, and a charity. Typically, customers can choose things like the charity and how the money gets split up (i.e. if you want most of it to go to the charity instead of the developers and Humble).

Additionally, most Humble Bundles have a minimum spend amount that customers need to hit in order to unlock all titles in a bundle. The ‘F*ck Cancer’ bundle requires a donation of at least $12.56 CAD to unlock all 13 titles from the bundle, but customers are free to donate much more as well.

All of the money spent on the ‘F*ck Cancer’ bundle goes towards ‘Cancerfonden,’ the Swedish Cancer Society, for cancer research. According to the bundle description listed on Humble’s website, the bundle celebrates former Starbreeze Studios CEO Mikael Nermark, who passed away due to cancer in October 2021.

“To celebrate the life and legacy of father, husband, and former Starbreeze Studios head Mikael Nermark, friends, family, and colleagues across the game industry rallied together with Humble to grant him one final birthday wish. The result: an epic bundle of games dedicated to Mikael and everyone whose lives have been affected by cancer,” reads the Humble site.

Several of the titles included in the bundle were developed or published by Starbreeze. You can view a full list of games in the bundle below:

  • World War Z: Aftermath
  • Dead by Daylight
  • Payday 2
  • Magicka
  • Dungeon of the Endless
  • theHunter: Call of the Wild
  • Homeworld Remastered Collection
  • Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
  • Little Nightmares
  • Brothers – A Tale of Two Sons
  • Peppy’s Adventure
  • Red Faction: Armageddon
  • Hamilton’s Great Adventure

Learn more about the bundle here.

Source: Humble Bundle Via: RedFlagDeals

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Bell adds new $55/5GB ‘Lite’ add-a-line plan, bundles Crave Mobile with $90+ plans

Bell rolled out a fresh new look for the mobile plan page on its website and a few minor changes to its plan offerings.

First, Bell’s plans have the same prices and data but new bonuses and features. The carrier appears to have dropped its $175/mo 100GB plan or removed it from the main plan page. Additionally, plans still include ‘unlimited’ data that gives customers a set amount at typical network speed. Once users surpass that allotment, they can continue to use data at a throttled speed of up to 512Kbps.

Check out the price and data amounts below:

  • $80/mo 20GB ‘Essential’ plan
  • $90/mo 40GB ‘Ultimate 40’ plan
  • $100/mo 50GB ‘Ultimate 50’ plan
  • $55/mo 5GB ‘Lite’ plan with 4G data – only available to new activations that add a line
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Bell plans as of February 01, 2022

The new ‘Lite’ plan is particularly interesting. It appears to be an add-a-line plan and one that’s targeted at kids since it includes “parental-controlled data access with the Data Manager tool.” However, unlike the other plans, the ‘Lite’ option does not have access to Bell’s 5G network. Interestingly, it also doesn’t appear to benefit from Bell’s multi-line discount, which reduces your total bill by $15/mo per line added.

Bell’s $90/mo and $100/mo plans now include ‘Crave Mobile’ for 24 months. Crave Mobile is Bell’s mobile-only plan for its streaming service that includes all the content offered in Crave’s base tier and HBO + Movies tier for $9.99/mo. You can learn more about it here.

Crave Mobile service is some nice added value likely intended to compete with Rogers, which bundles free Disney+ for 6 months with its $90 and $100 plans.

Other changes include minor tweaks to included features. All of Bell’s plans include shareable data, unlimited Canada-wide calling and texting and call display, call waiting, and conference calling. However, Bell’s $90 plan now includes unlimited international texting as well, while the $100 plan has unlimited international texting and U.S. calling, texting, and data.

Bell plans as of January 21, 2022

Bell’s old plans (January 21, 2022)

Bell also appears to have applied quality limits for video streaming to its plans. The $80 ‘Essential’ plan and the new ‘Lite’ plan both support “SD video streaming’ — Bell’s website notes that’s up to 480p video. The carrier has a new $5/mo add-on for the Essential plan that bumps that quality cap up to ‘HD video streaming,’ which is up to 1080p. The $90 and $100 plans both include ‘HD video streaming.’

Overall, I’m not sure these changes are necessarily good. While I like the addition of a ‘Lite’ plan for kids, it seems pricey at $55/mo (Fido, Koodo, and Virgin Plus all offer $58/15GB plans and $52/8GB plans at the moment). Additionally, I’m not a huge fan of adding several feature differences like the video streaming quality limits, which will likely make Bell’s plans far more confusing for customers.

You can check out all of Bell’s plan changes here. Note prices may differ depending on the region.

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Surface Pro 7 bundle with TypeCover, Surface Pen available for $999 at Costco

Costco Canada has a decent offer on a Microsoft Surface Pro 7 bundle if you’re looking to pick up one of Microsoft’s popular 2-in-1 devices.

As spotted by RedFlagDeals, Costco’s bundle includes the Microsoft Surface Pro 7 with a 10th Gen Intel i5-1035G4 CPU, 8GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD. Plus, the bundle includes a black TypeCover keyboard and platinum Surface Pen. All in, the bundle costs $999.99 for Costco members until December 30th.

While that might seem like a lot, especially for an older Surface model, it’s worth keeping in mind that Microsoft’s Surface line is typically expensive. The same Pro 7 i5 model would normally run you $1,199 in Canada without the $170 TypeCover or $130 Surface Pen.

Moreover, when I checked Microsoft’s website for the Surface Pro 7 price, I found that the same model was discounted to $929, but without the accessories. In other words, even with a significant discount from Microsoft, the Costco deal is still better. That said, Microsoft is out of stock of that Pro 7 model, so you can’t get it anyway (unless you buy the Costco one, which you should since it’s a better deal).

All of that said, this particular Surface Pro 7 bundle is really only worth it if you want the form factor. Microsoft’s Surface line is, in my opinion, one of the better options when it comes to 2-in-1, detachable Windows machines. However, if you don’t care about that form factor, you can get better value by buying a more traditional clamshell laptop (either something more powerful for the same price or something equally as powerful for less). That’s doubly so with the older Pro 7.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Surface Pro 7, you can check out my review here (I will note that I had some technical difficulties with mine, but after those were worked out, the Pro 7 was fine). Alternatively, you can check out my Surface Pro 8 review here if you’re considering getting the latest and greatest Surface Pro.

You can check out the Costco deal here.

Source: Costco Via: RedFlagDeals

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Surface Pro 7 bundle with TypeCover, Surface Pen available for $999 at Costco

Costco Canada has a decent offer on a Microsoft Surface Pro 7 bundle if you’re looking to pick up one of Microsoft’s popular 2-in-1 devices.

As spotted by RedFlagDeals, Costco’s bundle includes the Microsoft Surface Pro 7 with a 10th Gen Intel i5-1035G4 CPU, 8GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD. Plus, the bundle includes a black TypeCover keyboard and platinum Surface Pen. All in, the bundle costs $999.99 for Costco members until December 30th.

While that might seem like a lot, especially for an older Surface model, it’s worth keeping in mind that Microsoft’s Surface line is typically expensive. The same Pro 7 i5 model would normally run you $1,199 in Canada without the $170 TypeCover or $130 Surface Pen.

Moreover, when I checked Microsoft’s website for the Surface Pro 7 price, I found that the same model was discounted to $929, but without the accessories. In other words, even with a significant discount from Microsoft, the Costco deal is still better. That said, Microsoft is out of stock of that Pro 7 model, so you can’t get it anyway (unless you buy the Costco one, which you should since it’s a better deal).

All of that said, this particular Surface Pro 7 bundle is really only worth it if you want the form factor. Microsoft’s Surface line is, in my opinion, one of the better options when it comes to 2-in-1, detachable Windows machines. However, if you don’t care about that form factor, you can get better value by buying a more traditional clamshell laptop (either something more powerful for the same price or something equally as powerful for less). That’s doubly so with the older Pro 7.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Surface Pro 7, you can check out my review here (I will note that I had some technical difficulties with mine, but after those were worked out, the Pro 7 was fine). Alternatively, you can check out my Surface Pro 8 review here if you’re considering getting the latest and greatest Surface Pro.

You can check out the Costco deal here.

Source: Costco Via: RedFlagDeals

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Walmart Canada’s Nintendo Switch bundle includes carrying case, year of online

Walmart Canada has a decent, exclusive Nintendo Switch bundle available now. The retailer’s bundle includes the Switch console, Neon Blue and Neon Red Joy-Cons with a controller grip, a 12-month Nintendo Switch Online membership and a carrying case for the handheld.

The bundle clocks in at $379.96, about the same as you’d pay for the regular Switch and Joy-Con package. That’s a roughly $50 added value for the same price. The carrying case costs around $24.99 (I couldn’t find the exact ‘Neon Blue Edition’ case included in the bundle, but similar case options on Nintendo Canada’s website cost $24.99).

As for the Switch Online service, a 12-month individual membership (the same as what comes in the Walmart bundle) typically costs $24.99.

Overall, I’d say it’s a pretty solid offer, although maybe not the best one ever. Other retailers have bundles priced at $380 that include more — for example, Best Buy Canada has a bundle “coming soon” with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and a three-month Switch Online membership (a roughly $100 value).

Still, Mario Kart isn’t for everyone, and if you’d rather have the carrying case and longer access to Switch Online services, then the Walmart bundle is for you. You can check it out here.

Image credit: Walmart Canada Gaming (Twitter)

Source: Walmart (Twitter)