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All Paid Google One Subscribers Now Get VPN Access

genovelle said:
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.
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Possibly true, but it's not to hide your information from Google, it's meant to add a layer of safety when using public Wifi.

rm5 said:
Ok, stupid question: how do I actually access this VPN? Looking on my account page and don't see anything.
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Yeah - I was going to try it too, but it's not showing. I'm on the 200GB plan, so perhaps they haven't updated it for use on the lower tier plans yet.
 
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the ultimate oxymoron "Google Virtual Private Network" ... hahahahahaha..... hahahahahahaha... oh no .. cant ... stop ...laughing!. and you can pay them for it too... :rolleyes: All kidding aside. All VPNs are probably collecting your data.. but Google will do the best job!
 
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Justin Cymbal said:
That’s awesome!

I get my Google One through T-Mobile because T-Mobile offers a plan for $15/month that includes 2TB for Google Drive, etc. and unlimited photo and video back up with Google Photos

I’m glad that I’ll also now have VPN included in my Google One plan as well - having a VPN will be great for when I travel overseas
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Hi which plan is this? Can yu share the plan link
 
d686546s said:
Google says it can't tie your network traffic to your identity.

The question is obviously whether this is true, but not necessarily more or less than with other companies.
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Not sure that Google press releases rank very high in terms of their trustworthiness.
 
If you don’t trust it, don’t use it. Pay for another. But as an extra value is very welcome. I still use google a lot and will keep using it for the foreseeable future.
Don’t want your data to be sold or used, then suggest to your favorites website to provide a “pay to use a website mode”!. Let’s see how much money you want to pay…
Do you really think the internet is “free”?!. You are a baby then…
 
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Google waiting for everyone to use their VPN:


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sniffies said:
VPN Access from Google. That's funny, tell another one.
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They are a wholly owned subsidiary of the NSA. Someone like Eric Schmidt doesn’t go away. They go into hiding.

When reading the page, the location of the footnote references said it all. I mean seriously, without reading any further, why would you need to qualify anything beginning with “Google will never…”? Lol.

“I will never cheat on you.”†

If I was drinking anything, I would have spat it out. I checked to see if it was April 1 three times after.

†🤰🏻: Except on days that end in y

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Flight Plan said:
This is all about ideology and politics. I would no sooner buy a Google VPN than I would one from Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, or even Twitter. Or one subsidized by the US Federal government. Or from China, for that matter.

It's getting so I might have to create my own VPN.
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It is the US gov and US companies that have a strangle hold on the internet and data collection, and with the US Gov sanctioning, banning, cancelling out any competitor, you're better off going with China.
 
btbeme said:
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.
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Reporting, tracking, restricting, etc. illegal activities is one thing, doing the same for legal activities is something very different. What motive would a bank have to discourage use of their card for legal transactions? Again, they want their customers spending as much as possible (without defaulting, of course) so they can collect transaction fees, potential interest, etc.

What you seem to be describing is more of a government control issue than a Google issue. If a government is looking to take that much control, then a VPN service whether from Google or another company likely won't matter as they'd presumably all be made illegal. I just don't see the U.S. (or other similar countries) turning into a North Korea, China, etc. socialist state.
 
Hombre53 said:
Trust Google? 👁️ Na, I'll pass on that one. Just as well let the wolves run the hen house.
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It’s the literal definition of that. Beelzebub opens a portal for you and is like “c’mon in, the water’s fine! Splish splash! Free presents inside!” Just wait until they spin it off into another LLC they 100% own due to “legitimate concerns about Google’s past.”

This company’s privacy practices are so toxic that you practically need a bunny suit at the keyboard as it is.

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Proton, I love you.
Thank you for not being Google.
 
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ratspg said:
People hate on Google so much it's kind of funny. People know Google makes most of its money from data and ads already.
Let's forget all the work they did creating PageRank, Gmail in 2004 everybody begging for an invite, Google Maps (original Maps on iPhone for a while), YouTube acquisition and growth, I'm sure NOBODY uses YouTube, buying DoubleClick (which is why most people hate Google and their ad business), Chrome Browser.
Yes Android isn't as great as iOS, yes they create and destroy tons of products, Google Reeder, Google+ etc etc. They aren't some perfect amazing company.

Google Search helped the internet explode in use and popularity. No hate and punching on Google will ever change that.
Also Privacy and Internet in the same sentence are hilarious. It's okay, just put it all on Google ;)
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That was when Google had "Do No Evil" as part of their code of conduct. It's no longer in the code of conduct lol.
 
JoshNori said:
They are a wholly owned subsidiary of the NSA. Someone like Eric Schmidt doesn’t go away. They go into hiding.

When reading the page, the location of the footnote references said it all. I mean seriously, without reading any further, why would you need to qualify anything beginning with “Google will never…”? Lol.

“I will never cheat on you.”†

If I was drinking anything, I would have spat it out. I checked to see if it was April 1 three times after.

†🤰🏻: Except on days that end in y

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Absolutely right.
 
d686546s said:
Google says it can't tie your network traffic to your identity.

The question is obviously whether this is true, but not necessarily more or less than with other companies.
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This from the company that has been sued multiple times for circumventing do not follow protocols on devices to gather data anyway.
 
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