I have this vpn because it comes for free with my Google Drive subscription. I have never used it because it does not do what I expect it to do
- privacy, it’s Google.
- pretend to be in a different country is not available
But it’s included…. Ples give your data
what’s the utility of the vpn then???
Security when you’re on untrusted network. I can trust Google to snoop my banking data and update the spending power info on my ad profile, I can’t trust the random dude in trench coat also using the public wifi when I am traveling out of my roaming coverage.
I joke of course, but the security aspect is still valid.
What is it that you’re doing that is still not using some form of authenticated encryption? Almost everything is https, ssh, almost all mailservers have tls support, irc does have tls support… What’s left that needs to be encrypted by a VPN?
So this is a question I’ve been wondering: is public WiFi safe to treat like a private one if you’re using HTTPS everywhere?
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The biggest thing was being able to switch it on and off from the notifications menu. It is/was super convenient.
Not surprised this is being shut down because it lacked many of the features that most major vpns had.
But that feature was unique.
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Google shutting down a service?! That’s a new one. I would have never expected that.
Another service to add to the pile of things Google barely supported then killed.
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> VPN
> by Google
> Gets shut down
You literally can’t make this stuff up folks
Google, Meta, Microsoft.
Three companies I would never trust as a VPN provider. Not necessarily in that order.
Good, Google has enough access to everyone’s data already. Nobody needs to willingly give them even more access by routing all of their traffic through a Google server.
Another one for the grave yard
No doubt, they used this to scrape network traffic.
Google had a VPN?
Google can go to hell.
