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VPN by Google One is shutting down for good
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Yeah I use it all the time. For one you can download torrents at full speed with it. And it's great for when you are connecting to random wifi connections at restaurants and other businesses. Everyone in all of the threads has been like huurrr durrr Google for privacy hyuk hyuk, while giving themselves a reach around for being so smart. That's not the point of this VPN. It was a great tool that was a good value add to a storage service I already pay for.
A quick lightweight security tool for situations that require minimal security, which frankly for the public at large is all they ever need, the boogeyman is in fact not hacking your local coffee shop wifi work zombie access nodes, relax. It was also pretty handy when tmobile wants to throttle YouTube you could pop this on and get back to videos without buffering.
I didn't trust Google enough to torrent but definitely used it on my pixel while traveling. Especially when at relatives houses. I don't need my DNS requests being logged by their router.
I very much felt like you: it's a convenient feature-add for something I was paying for. I did not use it for privacy. I used it for convenience.
Most people who truly care about privacy wouldn't use google products at all, including their remote storage or whatever you're using that makes this an inexpensive add-on.
There are plenty of affordable remote storage and vpn services that aren't google that have much better track records on privacy and don't owe $7,000,000 in fines for an antitrust case.
It's nice that you're saying people believe they're super smart and make 4chan style noises because they write that they don't like google for a privacy product, but I have to tell you: you do not need to give yourself a reach-around. Your genitals are on the front of your body.