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Never in a million years would I trust google as my VPN provider. 1) No customer support 2) it will probably be cancelled in 18 months 3) they already spy on
by ProAm 6y ago
Never in a million years would I trust google as my VPN provider.
1) No customer support
2) it will probably be cancelled in 18 months
3) they already spy on me enough with search, android, google keyboard, gmail
- chickenpotpie 6y agoIs there really an issue if it gets cancelled? You can just get a new VPN. It’s not like other google products where you’re going to lose data or have to rebuild systems.
- kadoban 6y agoIt's still a pain setting up a new one and learning its quirks. If there was a compelling reason otherwise, might be worth it. Can't think of any upside myself, even the price isn't good.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Can't think of any upside myself, even the price isn't good. The price is zero if you are already on that Google One tier, which is pretty good. Whether its good if you aren't depends on not just the VPN service itself, but how much you value the other things provided by Google One.
- dudus 6y agoIsn't the point of google one to have some services such as support?
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- dragonwriter 6y ago> 1) No customer support Google One has customer support. Largely, Google One is paid support Google consumer products,. That's actually one of the main selling points. Since this is a feature of a particular Google One tier, it comes with support. > 2) it will probably be cancelled in 18 months Probably not. > 3) they already spy on me enough with search, android, google keyboard, gmail How would being a VPN (for Android only) provider change that? It doesn't increase Google's ability to spy on you, and it decreases other people's ability to. Which, insofar as your private information is valuable to Google, it makes sense for them to do as effectively as possible, even if you take the most cynical view of their motives.
- part1of2 6y ago> It doesn't increase Google's ability to spy on you You're going to have to prove that. Your Android device doesn't send ALL your traffic to Google today. Using this would send ALL your traffic to Google. that 100% means it increases Google's ability to spy on you.
- lima 6y agoRead their whitepaper: https://www.gstatic.com/subscriptions/marketing_page/vpn/white_paper_4f995ab5d7c7edc3d3f14f2e0593f790.pdf https://www.gstatic.com/subscriptions/marketing_page/vpn/whi... Client source code: https://github.com/google/vpn-libraries https://github.com/google/vpn-libraries What they're doing - cryptographic blinding that separates authentication from user session - is probably the best approach at subscriber privacy I've seen so far. I wonder how they'll deal with abuse.
- gaara87 6y ago> What they're doing - cryptographic blinding that separates authentication from user session - is probably the best approach at subscriber privacy I've seen so far. can someone eli5 please?
- causality0 6y agoBeing a paid Google consumer product means absolutely fucking nothing. See also: Revolv, Nest Security, Google Fi customer support.
- mankyd 6y agoYou have to pay money for this. One of the features they advertise is: "Premium support on everything Google". So, no customer support for non-paying customers, but I don't think that applies here.
- Justsignedup 6y agoi was just about to say -- now they can just read from your dns directly :) guess don't use 8.8.8.8 either :)
- arpa 6y ago1.1.1.1 is faster anyway :)