I trust VPN providers that have been asked in court to provide data and refused because they don't log more than I trust Google not to log here.
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#23> Privacy and security is core to everything we make.
Is this Poe's law in action?
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#25This is pretty cheap if you don't care about privacy
$10/mo is way more expensive than most VPN offerings. I've been paying something around $2.50/mo for Private Internet Access for years now.
The $10 is for the entire services bundle (storage, support, etc). The VPN alone is $1.99.
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#26Will Google monitor visited sites?
It says that personally-identifying information is not present on the VPN endpoint and no user data is logged, only service metrics with no identifiable information. Specific data logged and not logged appears on page 4 and 5 of the whitepaper.
As with browser/device fingerprinting, I expect "service metrics" to be able to identify users regardless if their name is attached to it.
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#27Since this is service you pay for, and not paid by ads and Google says it will not track, log or sell activity it's probably fine.
PRISM
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#28Will Google monitor visited sites?
"Google will never use the VPN connection to track, log, or sell your browsing activity¹" "1. Some minimum logging is performed to ensure quality of service, but your network traffic is never logged and your IP is not associated to your activity." Even with that fairly well spelled out promise, I trust google about as much as I trust $RANDO_VPN, so... hardly at all?
They won’t at the vpn connection but they will elsewhere. And they can design the vpn to make tracking at other layers more possible.
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#29This is pretty cheap if you don't care about privacy
$10/mo is way more expensive than most VPN offerings. I've been paying something around $2.50/mo for Private Internet Access for years now.
I know he was also referencing the VPN, but this also comes with Drive storage and other "benefits" in the Google ecosystem. I mean, these days terrabytes cost peanuts so it probably doesn't make a difference.