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Had no idea Google had a VPN. I don’t know why anyone would use it. As if their other data gathering methods weren’t enough. Imagine funneling all of your inter
by worldwidelies 2y ago
Had no idea Google had a VPN. I don’t know why anyone would use it. As if their other data gathering methods weren’t enough. Imagine funneling all of your internet traffic through them.
- nalekberov 2y agoMost people think of VPN as a magic tool to be completely anonymous on the internet.
- fellerts 2y agoCan you fault them when that's what NordVPN and others claim in their YouTube ads? Tom Scott said it better than I could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY
- nalekberov 2y agoIt's called capitalism. Unfortunately people rarely question the things they buy as a necessity.
- blitzar 2y agoIt's called fraud
- fellerts 2y agoIt's also called false advertising. Not all responsibility lies with the consumer.
- nalekberov 2y agoHow many advertisings you know are "true"?
- ignoramous 2y agoFor the same reason Apple operates Private Relay. Google also cares a tonne about state censorship blocking access to its web services. A refresher: Google runs world's largest public DNS resolver, builds a browser used by 3b+, and an OS by 2b+. If they need to harvest data, they most certainly don't need a VPN (and may be that's why they killed it).
- Veliladon 2y agoI don’t think that’s the answer. I don’t know about Google One but iCloud Private Relay doesn’t work in China straight up. You get a message saying it’s not allowed in the territory.
- chatmasta 2y agoApple doesn’t operate Private Relay, and in fact that’s kind of the point: nodes are operated by three separate entities (Cloudflare, Fastly and Akamai IIRC). And the protocol is designed such that no entity can link your identity to your traffic. It’s actually quite cool and worth reading more about if you aren’t familiar with it.
- jgrahamc 2y agoYep, see: https://blog.cloudflare.com/icloud-private-relay https://blog.cloudflare.com/icloud-private-relay
- marvinblum 2y agoWell, I mean, Google is planning that for all Chrome users: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/ip-protection https://github.com/GoogleChrome/ip-protection