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Re: VPN by Google One

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post #34

What is Google One? Is this the service formally known as Google Apps or some other service? I find it hard to keep track of all their products because they change so much.

Google One is essentially paying for more storage on Drive, I think? I am not sure what else it comes with.

Re: VPN by Google One

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only if in your mind "VPN" equals "anonymity and privacy" (which it shouldn't).

What should a VPN be for if not privacy?

providing a thin smokescreen of plausibility that you are actually in the country you need to be in to access a particular media resource.

Which for some reason I don't expect Google's VPN to help you with at all.

Re: VPN by Google One

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post #17

Never in a million years would I trust google as my VPN provider. 1) No customer support 2) it will probably be cancelled in 18 months 3) they already spy on me enough with search, android, google keyboard, gmail

Isn't the point of google one to have some services such as support?

Re: VPN by Google One

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post #17

Never in a million years would I trust google as my VPN provider. 1) No customer support 2) it will probably be cancelled in 18 months 3) they already spy on me enough with search, android, google keyboard, gmail

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Re: VPN by Google One

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only if in your mind "VPN" equals "anonymity and privacy" (which it shouldn't).

What should a VPN be for if not privacy?

Geographical IP relocation seems like a common reason to use it. Also just because Google may have access to some information it doesn't mean that everyone else has.

You can't stop companies from gathering information when you interact with their services but you can do things to avoid having all that information aggregated (it would require using different IP addresses for different services, so a VPN can help, among other things).

Re: VPN by Google One

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post #17

Never in a million years would I trust google as my VPN provider. 1) No customer support 2) it will probably be cancelled in 18 months 3) they already spy on me enough with search, android, google keyboard, gmail

Is there really an issue if it gets cancelled? You can just get a new VPN. It’s not like other google products where you’re going to lose data or have to rebuild systems.

It's still a pain setting up a new one and learning its quirks. If there was a compelling reason otherwise, might be worth it. Can't think of any upside myself, even the price isn't good.
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