The service didn't even work if you signed up for google one from most of the world and then they discontinue it coz of low usage? Pretty funny stuff
It was so half-assed to begin with.
Google One VPN will be discontinued
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#22I wonder what their marketing is thinking about this. Google One is effectively just Google Drive storage with some feature add-ons. Until now, that VPN was their only 'additional' thing in the package. Without the VPN it's just a few enhancements to existing products that aren't compelling enough.
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#23I think it's 50/50 whether or not I believe the reasoning.
One one hand: killing a product for not being multi billion user multi billion dollar overnight success is incredibly on brand.
On the other hand: I 100% believe that they just found government pushback too burdensome to comply with. That would match what I saw when I worked there.
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#24I somewhat anticipated the discontinuation of Google VPN because Google didn't address the issue of DNS hijacking, particularly on their Windows client. Ironically, this unresolved issue is why I stopped using their service.
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#25Not shocking. Their VPN app sucked ass. A) it randomly disconnected several times a day, and B) it had no "kill switch" option which would block all traffic when the VPN went down. So my connection was frequently unprotected throughout the day.
Yeah, their client was pretty bad, especially on macOS where it would sometimes get borked in a way that needed a full OS reboot to start working again.
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#26Re: Google One VPN will be discontinued
#27One less predatory service to worry about.
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#28Not shocking. Their VPN app sucked ass. A) it randomly disconnected several times a day, and B) it had no "kill switch" option which would block all traffic when the VPN went down. So my connection was frequently unprotected throughout the day.
I can’t remember, but didn’t it require the Android Google One app to do VPN on Chromebooks? I remember it being hard to setup, but perhaps I’m misremembering my journey through dodgy VPN clients.
Re: Google One VPN will be discontinued
#29Not shocking. Their VPN app sucked ass. A) it randomly disconnected several times a day, and B) it had no "kill switch" option which would block all traffic when the VPN went down. So my connection was frequently unprotected throughout the day.
on android there is a Killswitch.
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#30I don’t know if it’s just bad management or they want to stay out any possible antitrust case. Because with their weight Google could easily make this a multi million “small” business. Either way, it’s good they leave some for the next guy to earn. ( not because the goodness of their heart I’m sure )
One billion+ users is the size of market that Google is interested in