Technology @lemmy.ml dvdnet62 @feddit.nl 3 mo. ago

VPN by Google One is shutting down for good

www.androidauthority.com VPN by Google One is shutting down for good

Google is phasing out VPN by Google One in favor of other features and benefits it intends to provide Google One users.

Technology @lemmy.world Potatos_are_not_friends @lemmy.world 3 mo. ago

www.androidauthority.com /vpn-by-google-one-shut-down-3433530/

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Imagine buying a VPN off google...
- I feel cucked having google only get most of my traffic. I am an alpha male, I want them to get all of my traffic.
  
  Instead of being spied on by google and other companies, just make sure google is the one and only
Google shutting down a service?! That's a new one. I would have never expected that.
Another service to add to the pile of things Google barely supported then killed.
- https://killedbygoogle.com/
I have this vpn because it comes for free with my Google Drive subscription. I have never used it because it does not do what I expect it to do

privacy, it's Google.

pretend to be in a different country is not available
- what's the utility of the vpn then???
  
  Security when you’re on untrusted network. I can trust Google to snoop my banking data and update the spending power info on my ad profile, I can’t trust the random dude in trench coat also using the public wifi when I am traveling out of my roaming coverage.
  
  I joke of course, but the security aspect is still valid.
  
  The biggest thing was being able to switch it on and off from the notifications menu. It is/was super convenient.
  
  Not surprised this is being shut down because it lacked many of the features that most major vpns had.
  
  But that feature was unique.
- But it’s included…. Ples give your data
- Right, it's probably the same as every other "free" VPN. It's free because it gives them access to 100% of your internet traffic. Basically completely antithetical to the entire concept of a VPN.
> VPN

> by Google

> Gets shut down

You literally can’t make this stuff up folks
Google killed something off? Nah that can't be right
This is why I rarely get on board with new Google products nowadays. I know they'll get half assed support and then be killed off really quickly.
Why would I use a Google VPN anyways
- Some people think that Google is trustworthy. They still believe that the motto “Do No Evil” was ever relevant.
  
  The power of branding is never to be overstated.
- I use it because it comes free with a service I already pay for.
TIL they had a VPN
Google, Meta, Microsoft.

Three companies I would never trust as a VPN provider. Not necessarily in that order.
- Add Apple to the list, with their Private Relay nonsense.
Google can go to hell.
Good, Google has enough access to everyone's data already. Nobody needs to willingly give them even more access by routing all of their traffic through a Google server.
- Yeah that's the same conclusion they reached.
Another one for the grave yard
ITT people claim that a Google VPN is a bad product for all use cases because Google is not a privacy-respecting company. This ignores all non-privacy use cases for using a VPN.

And even for privacy, this would've been a product where the vendors interest in protecting your privacy and your interest in protecting your privacy aligned in the case where you were not hiding from Google. For example if you used a Chromebook laptop, used the Google Chrome browser, or used Google services like Google Search and Google YouTube, then Google would already know everything about you. You can't hide your activity from them, but they can help you hide it from others.

Similar situations exist for other privacy disrespecting companies like Microsoft and Apple, where a user might reasonably want to hide from everyone other than their vendor of choice, whose product they consider good enough to allow them to see their computer activity as part of their payment. If you already subscribe to one privacy disrespecting vendor, it makes the most sense to go all-in.
No doubt, they used this to scrape network traffic.
Google One is a huge disappointment.
- I hear the big sell is the drive storage

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