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Google is probably the last company I would pay for a VPN from
Facebook VPN
Touché
Tencent VPN
It’s bundled with Google One, so if you pay for more Google Drive storage you get it for free. tbf it’s a shit VPN that doesn’t even let you choose your country. I could see it used when on public wifi, but other than that I don’t see the point.
Kinda makes one not want to become dependant on google products.
For sure. I no longer buy into new Google products because they’re going to die. It also makes it hard to recommend anything Google. They’re literally killing their ability to expand by constantly doing this.
The only plus in this situation is that switching VPNs is far easier than other services since it’s just a pipe you’re swapping out.
Still annoying though, since Google VPN was nice if you were already paying for Google One. Now people will have to pay extra for something else.
It’s already been added to the Google Graveyard.
If you’re using Google as your primary anything, sorry but youre going to get screwed over.
Never. Trust. Google.
Google had a VPN?
So those of us that pay for google one yearly will get a partial refund?.. right?
They didn’t refund nest thermostat users when they verified those devices.
Shocker
I’m usually interested in a VPN for privacy, using a VPN provided by Google feels like I’d have been less privacy.
It’s an easy way to bypass dumb states anti porn laws for those that already pay for extra space.
Google is removing the VPN and free shipping (which was only available on some photo orders) to make way for more “in demand features”?
I could understand if this was coming from a smaller company with more limited resources and staff, but that’s not Google by any means.
They really don’t care about the poor reputation the general public has of them regarding shutting down services on a whim.
What’s worse though is they don’t seem to realize that, with the exception of Android and maybe Google Docs, their services/products are easily replaced by competitor offerings.
In my opinion it’s a good thing if Google gets knocked of their high horse and allow competition to flourish in their place.
Google docs is only good for collaboration. Otherwise its insane that MS Office is still superior to it.
Hell, Libreoffice is admittedly slightly behind MS for features, and its still superior to Google Docs.
Anyone here even use this?
Yeah I use it all the time. For one you can download torrents at full speed with it. And it’s great for when you are connecting to random wifi connections at restaurants and other businesses. Everyone in all of the threads has been like huurrr durrr Google for privacy hyuk hyuk, while giving themselves a reach around for being so smart. That’s not the point of this VPN. It was a great tool that was a good value add to a storage service I already pay for.
A quick lightweight security tool for situations that require minimal security, which frankly for the public at large is all they ever need, the boogeyman is in fact not hacking your local coffee shop wifi work zombie access nodes, relax. It was also pretty handy when tmobile wants to throttle YouTube you could pop this on and get back to videos without buffering.
I didn’t trust Google enough to torrent but definitely used it on my pixel while traveling. Especially when at relatives houses. I don’t need my DNS requests being logged by their router.
I very much felt like you: it’s a convenient feature-add for something I was paying for. I did not use it for privacy. I used it for convenience.
Most people who truly care about privacy wouldn’t use google products at all, including their remote storage or whatever you’re using that makes this an inexpensive add-on.
There are plenty of affordable remote storage and vpn services that aren’t google that have much better track records on privacy and don’t owe $7,000,000 in fines for an antitrust case.
It’s nice that you’re saying people believe they’re super smart and make 4chan style noises because they write that they don’t like google for a privacy product, but I have to tell you: you do not need to give yourself a reach-around. Your genitals are on the front of your body.
I do when on unencrypted wifi
I have, yeah. While I was traveling internationally and the roaming mobile data rates were insane. So I used the VPN while connecting to hotel/public wifi.
Wait how does that help with roaming charges?
Instead of using mobile data he used public Wi-fi through VPN.
Oh like the vpn is just to encrypt traffic on the public wifi it doesnt help with roaming itself. That makes sense
Right. Not about to use public WiFi naked!
I use it when I’m traveling and am on insecure WiFi.
However, it doesn’t let you pick your egress location,.so if you’re trying to get to PornHub in Texas, it won’t help.
I’ve never even heard of it. They sure weren’t putting their VPN front and center.
If you have Google one you can download the Google one app there’s a list of things you get in there and to redeem it from the app
