Google is probably the last company I would pay for a VPN from
Facebook VPN
Touché
NSA VPN
Yeah I can see why people weren’t using it lol. Google is entirely the person they’re trying to hide from.
People have trust issues with Google services.
Kind of funny that they sent an email with like 3 benefits of Google One being dropped but nothing added back.
They should drop Google One. It’s literally just storage afaict.
Didn’t they advertise this as one of the benefits of buying a pixel phone?
Less than a year and it’s gone… Not that it was much of a feature in the first place
If you’re using Google as your primary anything, sorry but youre going to get screwed over.
Never. Trust. Google.
Kinda makes one not want to become dependant on google products.
For sure. I no longer buy into new Google products because they’re going to die. It also makes it hard to recommend anything Google. They’re literally killing their ability to expand by constantly doing this.
The only plus in this situation is that switching VPNs is far easier than other services since it’s just a pipe you’re swapping out.
Still annoying though, since Google VPN was nice if you were already paying for Google One. Now people will have to pay extra for something else.
Vpn’s aren’t that expensive, the one I use is $55 for 2 years.
Which is that?
Surfshark, I don’t know much about VPN’s but I’ve been told they are pretty secure and don’t share your info. I mainly use VPN’s to pirate shows and movies and for that it’s worked well, havnt gotten any letters from my ISP.
I’m not endorsing them just to be clear as I am not knowledgeable enough to know if it’s good or not but it was recommended by someone I trust with that stuff like 3 years ago.
Yeah, but that’s still an extra expense. Most people using Google VPN were using it because they were already paying for Google One.
It’s $2 a month… I think you’ll be fine.
Google is removing the VPN and free shipping (which was only available on some photo orders) to make way for more “in demand features”?
I could understand if this was coming from a smaller company with more limited resources and staff, but that’s not Google by any means.
They really don’t care about the poor reputation the general public has of them regarding shutting down services on a whim.
What’s worse though is they don’t seem to realize that, with the exception of Android and maybe Google Docs, their services/products are easily replaced by competitor offerings.
In my opinion it’s a good thing if Google gets knocked of their high horse and allow competition to flourish in their place.
Google docs is only good for collaboration. Otherwise its insane that MS Office is still superior to it.
Hell, Libreoffice is admittedly slightly behind MS for features, and its still superior to Google Docs.
Anyone here even use this?
Yeah I use it all the time. For one you can download torrents at full speed with it. And it’s great for when you are connecting to random wifi connections at restaurants and other businesses. Everyone in all of the threads has been like huurrr durrr Google for privacy hyuk hyuk, while giving themselves a reach around for being so smart. That’s not the point of this VPN. It was a great tool that was a good value add to a storage service I already pay for.
A quick lightweight security tool for situations that require minimal security, which frankly for the public at large is all they ever need, the boogeyman is in fact not hacking your local coffee shop wifi work zombie access nodes, relax. It was also pretty handy when tmobile wants to throttle YouTube you could pop this on and get back to videos without buffering.
I didn’t trust Google enough to torrent but definitely used it on my pixel while traveling. Especially when at relatives houses. I don’t need my DNS requests being logged by their router.
I very much felt like you: it’s a convenient feature-add for something I was paying for. I did not use it for privacy. I used it for convenience.
