The “P” is silent.
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I think you’ll find it stands for parasitic.
Rivacy?
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Makes me cringe thinking of all those years I was using Google DNS, back when I believed that “don’t be evil” shit
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What do you use now?
NextDNS, been using it for a year and a half now. I like the ease of use and privacy/ad block filter options.
Oh sure. Use the company known for mining the fuck out of personal data to protect my personal data from being mined.
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Idk… maybe not great for privacy but I just test it (I have been a subscriber for a while and didn’t know there was a VPN) and it bypasses my country blocks of certain piracy pages so so far it’s kind of usefull.
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This is funny. Please pipe ALL of your online activities through us. We won’t spy, gather, sell, or snitch.
Get fucked.
At least Google VPN is honest about who tracks you with this VPN, LOL
Does it really say that?
OP added as a joke
I was also curious, so I found this page. It looks nothing like the screenshot (maybe because Im on mobile), and the only sentence coming close, under the “Extra online protection” heading, is: “Reduce online tracking by hiding your IP address”. As if that means anything if you have Google apps installed on your phone.
But after reading more, I found a link to their how-it-works page, which then linked to their github page. Is beeing open-source really enough to show it’s secure and private? I still wouldn’t trust them.
Being open source by default doesn’t make a project secure and privacy friendly (especially if it’s server sided code. You can’t really verify for sure)
The VPN itself is secure, but it depends of an Google One account (not free). And respect of this, I found this in the FAQ page
Also, while VPN by Google One secures your device connection, it does not affect how Google collects data when you use our other products and services. For example, depending on your sync settings, Chrome will continue to store your Chrome browsing history to your Google Account. To manage the kinds of data saved to your account, you can review your Google Account’s privacy controls.
This mean, that my Screenshot isn’t a Joke, even if you use this VPN which certainly protect you from third party tracking, Google remain logging your data, because the VPN use it’s own Google servers with your Google One account, not free public servers, like other VPN. It’s a similar scam like the Opera “VPN”. Nice try, Google
If you want a good VPN, use Nord VPN, or if you want a good trustworthy free VPN, use Proton VPN free (no logs, no limits in amount of data nor speed, encrypted at military level, but limited to 23 servers in three countries and use in only one device (PC or Mobile) in the free version), Proton is also OpenSource.
At least, if you only need a VPN to protect your mobile in a public WiFi, Calyx VPN also maybe enough, it’s FOSS, encrypted, no logs, no account needed, no limits, but only one server from the Calyx institute, a non-profit education and research organization. Download from F-Droid.
Only on chrome
Lmao “Cops sell drugs now” :D
The point of a VPN is to protect your privacy. Google is the last company I would trust to do that.
A VPN doesn’t help that much anyways for privacy.
I’m thinking of the target user for this: For us here it’s a really unfunny joke. For the people wanting to do “non-kosher” stuff like watching streaming for other countries or even outright pirating i don’t think Google’s gonna have their back. People trying to hide their identity while doing compromising stuff (like anything sexual or identity related, not illegal but not something they want in public) hopefully know not to trust Google on this. And corporate users already have their own corporate VPNs, don’t think they’re aiming for those (yet).
Who the fuck is left as potential user? My only conclusion is the terminally gullible. I see no other option. And since of course there’s a sucker born every minute it’ll have millions of users…
They’re fishing for people who think it’s important to have one because YouTube sponsorships told them so.
But they’re all using a discounted NordVPN thanks to Warographics.
I used it when my wife was at the hospital and they had a public wifi network with no password. I already have Google One, so it was a no Brainer in my case.
For casual people traveling that don’t want their free wifi being spied on. Also it’s free.
They are left with a sample size exactly as large or as small as the body of users who still google anything.
I pirate the shit out of torrents on Google VPN for years no problems. Spectrum kept hassling me getting caught twice in one month. Switched to Google and never got bothered again. They don’t throttle torrents either.
They want to make sure noone else can steal your data…
… but them.
No fucking way will Google EVER be my VPN.
I’m just upvoting all the “lol”, “lmfao” and “hahaha” comments.
They really do think we are all fucking idiots, don’t they?
Most are.
I mean, are they wrong?
Hasn’t this been around for a while? I’ve had the option on my phone since last year. And while Google isn’t exactly trustworthy, it’s better than some of the shadier free options out there.
It’s fast and it’s accessible for non-techy people. Certainly better than using an unsecured network with no protection at all.
What I want to know is are there really people sitting in Starbucks all day with a laptop trying to view your Instagram traffic.
A few uears ago there mighta been of you were popular enough. Nowadays probably not.
That would be like hiring professional bank robbers with a long string of hits to provide security for a bank.
Not trusting big Goog at all here, but some of the best hackers have been known to get hired by big corporations or the government, seeing as how they’re the best at what to look for.
Aren’t some of the more profitable and secure services created by those trained to break security?
