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Everything 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 *

• lxgr 3y ago
  I think this was actually a somewhat compelling product: Sure, Google tracks users where they can, but for this they were explicitly claiming to be using authentication via blinded signature tokens, and to not log any traffic. Google has a lot more to lose from a privacy or breach of contract lawsuit than a random shady VPN operation that can just disappear when word gets out that they're actually feeding everything to data brokers, and open shop under a different name the next day.
  • jqpabc123 3y ago
    * ... authentication via blinded signature tokens* Hand waving, smoke and mirrors. When the authentication and the service are both run by the same company on their servers, a huge potential exists for there to be nothing really "blind" about. As many, many examples show; Google = Privacy Invasion. It's way too late for them to try and establish privacy credibility.
    • lxgr 3y ago
      The blind signing part runs locally on your VPN client. > It's way too late for them to try and establish privacy credibility. I personally don't think it's a good idea to trust any corporation to be a good or bad custodian of your personal data based on their public image or even past actions. These values can change very quickly, especially in publicly-traded corporations. What matters much more than self-proclaimed statements or public perception are economic incentives, and I believe Google has quite strong incentives to not get hit by huge fines for violating the GDPR and other privacy regulations.