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I recently had something similar on Google Fi. One day my phone had a pop-up offering to connect me to their beta VPN automatically for security. Of course, wh
by kstenerud 8y ago
I recently had something similar on Google Fi. One day my phone had a pop-up offering to connect me to their beta VPN automatically for security.
Of course, while connected to the VPN you can't connect to anything on the LAN, and I'm not sure how regular users would be able to disable the thing.
And, of course, the problem of Google sniffing everything you do.
- sigi45 8y agoBut just a VPN itself shouldn't be a problem. No rootca no sniffing.
- Corrado 8y agoI have Google Fi and I'm not sure this is the same thing. The Google VPN doesn't install a root CA (AFAIK) and merely acts like a normal VPN. It does terminate at Google's servers so they can peek at your traffic, but not any more so than a traditional ISP. The "secure" VPN dialog only comes up for certain WiFi connections that Google has some knowledge about. For example, when I'm in Chick-fil-A I get the "Secure this connection?" dialog, but I never get it at home or work. I've never had a need to disable it to reach local resources, but I'm guessing you could turn off WiFi and turn it back on to rejoin the network and not accept the VPN connection. I've never had the need to do that so I don't know if it would work or not. :/
- kstenerud 8y agoNo, this was different from the automatic per-known-wifi connection securing that it normally does. It was an actual VPN, that I had to manually remove because I could no longer access anything on my LAN.
- Tepix 8y agoWhen using Google Fi, can't they look at all your traffic anyway even without an extra VPN?