Unless I’m mistaken it just appears to be for Android phones ? I guess I can see some value in it, but will no doubt be heading for the Google graveyard in 18-24months !
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#52aka Surveillance As-A-Service
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#53Never 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
> 1) No customer support
Google One has customer support. Largely, Google One is paid support Google consumer products,. That's actually one of the main selling points. Since this is a feature of a particular Google One tier, it comes with support.
> 2) it will probably be cancelled in 18 months
Probably not.
> 3) they already spy on me enough with search, android, google keyboard, gmail
How would being a VPN (for Android only) provider change that? It doesn't increase Google's ability to spy on you, and it decreases other people's ability to. Which, insofar as your private information is valuable to Google, it makes sense for them to do as effectively as possible, even if you take the most cynical view of their motives.
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#54At least they are being honest, it's "Increase your online security" instead of "Increase your online privacy" :)
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#56I wonder how this compares to Cloudflare's WARP product [1].
[1] https://1.1.1.1/
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#57Will 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?
> your IP is not associated to your activity
Does this mean your incoming IP, or your outgoing IP? And if payment info or Google identity is associated with your activity, why would they need to bother associating an IP to your activity?
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#60Even if you assume they do honor their promise to not tie any user accounts to the traffic, this would provide Google valuable traffic data.