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The service didn't even work if you signed up for google one from most of the world and then they discontinue it coz of low usage? Pretty funny stuff
by kkarakk 3y ago
The service didn't even work if you signed up for google one from most of the world and then they discontinue it coz of low usage?
Pretty funny stuff
- lxgr 3y agoTo be fair, there are some legal implications to providing VPNs in many countries, since they're effectively making you look a lot like an ISP from a legal and practical point of view. Google isn't a random fly-by-night VPN operator that can just ignore subpoenas and takedown notices, so they probably did some cost-reward analysis per country before offering it there. They could have bypassed some (but probably not all) of that by offering cross-country VPN nodes, but I suspect that given their size they didn't want to get into the business of "jurisdiction shopping", nor did they have any interest in landing on various media companies' "geo-bypassing VPN IP range" block lists.
- taco_emoji 3y agoIt was so half-assed to begin with.