Google One VPN will be discontinued
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Google One VPN will be discontinued
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#2Another one bites the dust.
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#3I’m convinced the Google treadmill of products that are created, shut down, and recreated is due to a promotion oriented culture. They must be getting rewarded for launches, not for building useful products or successful businesses.
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#4I’m convinced the Google treadmill of products that are created, shut down, and recreated is due to a promotion oriented culture. They must be getting rewarded for launches, not for building useful products or successful businesses.
Rumour has it that it's easy to get a bonus or raise for a new something, hard if you work on maintaining something. The new something doesn't need to be totally new, though.
But to be fair: In an organisation where your product is going to be compared against Adwords, your product will seem insignificant and irrelevant, and that's not because of how your team works on the product, and it's noe because of how the organisation does the comparison.
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#5Everything Google does has privacy invasion baked into it.
So it's really kinda insulting for them to offer a product where the central purpose is to provide *privacy*.
Apparently, the public is not quite as dumb as they thought.
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#6This impacts me quite a bit as I use this often.
I pay for Google One for the extra storage and VPN. Now the VPN is going away but my costs will stay the same.
That's absurd to me.
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#7I 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 )
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#8I 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 )
I'm pretty sure that for Google a "multi-million" sized venture is considered a complete waste of time; they probably don't consider it worth pursuing until it hits the hundreds of millions. The scale they operate at financially is beyond comprehensible.
I imagine its frustrating to be working on these projects which would mean untold riches to any individual or small group but having it get shut down because it's not making a half billion or so.
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#9> Google is now “discontinuing the VPN feature as [they] found people simply weren’t using it.”
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> Meanwhile, there are no changes to the free Pixel VPN introduced with the Pixel 7 series in 2022.
Ah yes, nobody is using it, so Google is saving cost by... discontinuing it for paying services customers, but continuing to provide it to hardware customers (that actually don't pay per month for it). Makes total sense.
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