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All Google One subscription tiers now get VPN access

Google One subscribers who aren’t on the service’s ‘Premium’ tier will get access to Google’s VPN service.

The search giant announced in a blog post that the VPN will be available to all Google One subscribers, even though on the company’s $2.79/mo ‘Basic’ plan. Previously, you needed to subscribe to the $13.99/mo Premium tier to get VPN access.

The change applies to all countries where Google VPN is available, which includes Canada. You can find a full list here. To access Google VPN, you’ll need to download the Google One app from the app store on your Android smartphone or iPhone. At the time of writing, I didn’t have access to the VPN despite being subscribed to the Standard plan. Google says the feature will roll out “over the next few weeks.”

It’s worth noting that Pixel 7 and 7 Pro owners still get access to Google VPN for free without needing to subscribe to Google One. While that’s good for Pixel owners, I also imagine most Pixel owners subscribe to Google One, so the VPN benefit is basically moot now.

Google also announced One subscriber in the U.S. can get a feature called ‘Dark web report.’ This can scan the dark web for your personal information and warn you if your information was compromised, though you need to provide the info to Google first so it can look for it. It remains to be seen if this expands to more locations in the future.

In Canada, Google one starts at $2.79/mo and goes all the way up to $35.99/mo:

  • Basic (100GB) – $2.79/mo | 27.99/year
  • Standard (200GB) – $3.99/mo | $39.99/year
    Premium (2TB) – $13.99/mo | $139.99/year
    Premium (5TB) – $35.99/mo | $359.99/year

Source: Google Via: The Verge

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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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Mozilla added its VPN to the excellent Multi-Account Containers add-on for Firefox

Mozilla is making its ‘Multi-Account Containers’ add-on for Firefox more powerful by allowing users to combine containers with a virtual private network (VPN).

Multi-Account Containers, for those unfamiliar with the add-on, allows Firefox users to “contain” different online accounts into separate spaces, all within a single browser window. Containers also isolate browsing history, cookies, tracking information, and more, making them great for privacy.

For example, if you have multiple accounts for an online service like email, Multi-Account Containers would let you log in to those accounts without having to deal with annoying account switching or other issues.

Multi-Account Containers have been available as a Firefox add-on since 2017, but there are several other extensions that leverage the capability as well. I’ve used Firefox containers for a while now, but I haven’t installed that specific extension. Instead, a combo of Mozilla’s ‘Facebook Container‘ add-on and the ‘Temporary Container‘ add-on has worked fine for me.

The former automatically opens Facebook pages in a separate container to help prevent the company from tracking you across the web, while the latter lets me create temporary containers with the click of a button that gets deleted when I’m done with them. Beyond that, I use a ‘Work’ container and a ‘Personal’ container to help keep my various work and personal accounts separate.

Image credit: Mozilla

Anyway, the new VPN capability only adds to the already excellent capabilities of Multi-Account Containers by allowing users to set specific VPN settings for each container. For example, you could set your ‘Banking’ container to always open using a VPN located in your home country while you use a different container tab using a VPN located in the U.S. to browse the American Netflix catalogue. It’s worth noting that if you don’t use Mozilla’s VPN service, you can click the ‘Advanced Proxy Settings’ button in Multi-Account Containers to set any proxy you want.

Alongside the Multi-Account Containers and VPN crossover, Mozilla announced that its VPN ‘multi-hop’ feature, which lets users route traffic through two different servers, is now available on Android and iOS.

You can learn more about using Multi-Account Containers with VPNs here.

Source: Mozilla Via: The Verge