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.
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
But it’s included…. Ples give your data
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.
Another service to add to the pile of things Google barely supported then killed.
Google shutting down a service?! That's a new one. I would have never expected that.
TIL they had a VPN
Google killed something off? Nah that can't be right
VPN
by Google
Gets shut down
You literally can’t make this stuff up folks
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.
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.
Google One is a huge disappointment.
I hear the big sell is the drive storage
Google can go to hell.
No doubt, they used this to scrape network traffic.
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.
