I am not into this ecosystem, but I understand that if you already use Google for other features, you would like to limit the data sniffing to Google only.
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Do you trust your VPN provider more than your internet service provider?
Do VPN Companies Track Your Browsing Data?
Do VPNs collect your browsing data and sell it to third parties? Here's what you need to know.
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Google VPN = Google Values your Personal N-formation 🤣Google VPN means that google gets exclusive rights to your data and can sell it for much moresince nobody else will get the data
Do all of you anti-google people also not interact with people that use google products. Asking for a friend… lol.
Sigh… the comments here are so predictable. Thank you Macrumors for continuing to keep your users informed even when certain users just like to troll.
Having a VPN included in a service I’m already paying for is great. Wouldn’t use it all the time but while traveling this will be really useful. And yes, I have more trust in Google than some randos on the internet who think every competitor to Apple is the devil and only Apple can be trusted.
Having a VPN included in a service I’m already paying for is great. Wouldn’t use it all the time but while traveling this will be really useful. And yes, I have more trust in Google than some randos on the internet who think every competitor to Apple is the devil and only Apple can be trusted.
Laugh now. In the not so distant future, the self-serve terminal at the grocery store will refuse to sell you sweets and carb-laden foods because of your medical Body Mass Index, as reported to your bank (who will stop the transaction) by your Global Identity Profile.
See, practices like this are already the everyday norm in China, which disallows Google largely to replace it with their own data-gathering processes. You think some do-gooder, probably an appointee in a ministry or federal department, won't try to promote something like that "for the good of everyone?" Think again.
In a digital world, the one with the data is king. All else are peasants. Or subjects. Or servants.
Maybe apple should buy some of this data from Google to figure out who are U2 fans instead of spamming everyone with a free U2 album.
VPNs are good at hiding traffic from ISPs only. If your goal is to hide from Facebook and Google, VPNs are useless at preventing digital fingerprinting and other browser tracking. If you’re logged in, even those techniques won’t be needed to track you.
There are good alternatives to every one of those. Paid exchange, vimeo, duckduckgo, apple maps, safari or firefox, etc. Degoogling isn't hard.
Degoogling…. Okay. Try de-ISPing or better yet de-governmenting. Lol. People live in a privacy fantasyland. It’s all good.
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Court Rules NSA Doesn't Have To Reveal Its Semi-Secret Relationship With Google
If the world's largest surveillance agency has a working relationship with the world's largest Internet firm, that's no one's business but theirs, according to an appeals court in the DC Circuit. In the ruling issued Friday, (PDF here ) the court decided that the National Security Agency doesn't...
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Most people are simply the product that Google markets to other 3rd parties. Been that way for years. Google is clever they increase the number of services offered to get even more information from you.
I'll just stick with OpenVPN. I use it to connect directly to the company's server from home. Sure it required a bit of tinkering to get just right, but I trust open source stuff. When millions of eyeballs have looked over the code and found no malicious exploits, I find it more trustworthy than any proprietary software.
I pay for it because I need the 100 GB of drive storage. I mean I pay yearly for it, but same difference... I also pay for iCloud, because I need the iCloud storage.
Worried that Google is spying on you? Don't. Run their VPN. No need to worry. You'll know it for sure.
Google has open-sourced their VPN.
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Ok, stupid question: how do I actually access this VPN? Looking on my account page and don't see anything.
How would those two things (individual’s BMI and a bank/credit card account) necessarily be correctly connected together? Sometimes multiple people use the same computer/phone device and/or use the same bank/credit card.
Also, what motivation would a bank have to discourage use of their card? They want their customers spending as much as possible (without defaulting, of course) so they can collect transaction fees, potential interest, etc.
The iOS VPN implentation is so buggy that it routinely leaks real IP address information and is effectively bypassed even with VPN on. So those saying no VPN is better than Google VPN are possibly correct.
Certainly true if you want to keep your info away from Google then you shouldn't touch services like this with a barge pole.
If you already use Google services though, and they know a lot about you, Google VPN is a nice option to hide details from everyone else.
Google VPN is useless if you want to change your location to access streaming services in other countries. They tie you to an IP address in your own country. On the upside, most streaming services will allow you to stream content with Google VPN on as a result.
Certainly true if you want to keep your info away from Google then you shouldn't touch services like this with a barge pole.
If you already use Google services though, and they know a lot about you, Google VPN is a nice option to hide details from everyone else.
Google VPN is useless if you want to change your location to access streaming services in other countries. They tie you to an IP address in your own country. On the upside, most streaming services will allow you to stream content with Google VPN on as a result.
They purchased much of the technology to find new ways to mine data. It used to be give it away for free to sucker you in. Now they want you to pay to be exploited.
Exactly the point. Right now, there is legislation in the works to free banks from some of the onerous reporting duties that they have; specifically the Bank Secrecy Act in the United States requires financial institutions to report transactions over a certain amount ($10k) regardless of the source, etc. They are also required to report other "suspicious" transactions, all to help combat money laundering. Other institutions (PayPal, Venmo, etc) are newly required to report transactions and aggregates of $300 or more, to combat tax fraud. None of these institutions agree with the reporting, none want to do it, and all are being forced to act essentially as a law enforcement agency through that reporting requirement. They should not HAVE to be, but they ARE.
Make no mistake - data collection on individuals will absolutely be used as social currency in the future. It already is in China, across wide swaths of living and travel. If the federal government is providing your health care, let's say, then they will absolutely try to "incentivize" you to eat or drive or exercise properly. Perhaps your diabetic friend will be denied certain transactions for soda and sugary foods, or you and your high cholesterol will have to pay triple for eggs. Your electric car can be remotely managed so that your driving style is more agreeable. Vehicles already have some luxury or convenience features shut off or turned on only by subscription - who is to say that the driver's seat wouldn't be remotely contorted as to make your overweight body more uncomfortable as incentive to exercise (as an ad for 50% off the first year flashes on the dash screen as you drive by the gym). You can certainly be given a transaction quota per day/week/year or lifetime on certain products, such as ammunition. Going to a religious gathering that someone in the neighborhood has reported as "radical" or dangerous? You car can refuse to drive there (all vehicles sold in the US after 2026 are required to implement a remote kill switch for law enforcement). All of this, and much more, can easily be implemented this very afternoon if there were lawful requirements to do so.
Data gathering, especially if not anonymized, is radically dangerous to freedoms. I am no tinfoil hat wearing weirdo, just telling you what is possible, what is already being implemented, and how your daily freedoms and lifestyle will be slowly eroded into a shape and position that "someone else" will find more "agreeable" to society as a whole. All for the greater good, of course.
