The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard - The Verge
The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard - The Verge
At least Google still provides two other VPN services...
In my opinion, the world would be a better place if Google published the source code for each project they introduced, popularised, and discontinued.
Here's a list of the Google Graveyard:
90Fk that's a long list.
Geez I miss play music 😢
24I actually discovered some interesting things in google play music back in the day. The play random music button actually had a few golden moments too.
Spotify just..... Feeds me what I'm already listening too. The discover weekly suggestions are usually useless for me.
YouTube music is just worse than GPM too.
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I doubt that'd ever become standard for them. Parts of the code for these discontinued products often get cannibalized by other Google products.
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Maybe the news about the Windows client changing DNS settings was too much bad publicity?
A VPN would naturally route all your traffic through a secure tunnel, but you've still got to do DNS lookups somewhere. A lot of VPN services also come with a DNS service, and Google is no different. The problem is that Google's VPN app changes the Windows DNS settings of all network adapters to always use Google's DNS, whether the VPN is on or off. Even if you change them, Google's program will change them back.
45They removed \don't be evil\ from their code of conduct, so it is ok now. /s
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doesn't most vpn user want to get rid of tracking and spying ? It would makes no sense for them to use Google vpn.
44That's just your bubble. Most VPN users just want to circumvent geo restrictions.
Besides that, the general VPN "propaganda" is that it encrypts your traffic and no-one can see it. The average user gets baited by that and doesn't care to look further into it.
38Yeah you're right, Forgot about this use case.
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The only real use for Google's VPN was as an extra layer of security when connected to an untrusted network or open WiFi.
11It makes just as much sense as most popular vpns. The main difference is you know you don't trust Google. Do you think something like nordvpn is any different? There's no guarantee for what they're doing either.
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This one burned me as I use the VPN all the time with my Google One subscription. Now I'll be paying the same subscription with less services. Very frustrating.
30Same here, it is quite infuriating
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TIL Google had a VPN, nothing like trying to hold water in a siv.
17Sieve
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Jamboard also, which a lot of my students still use at school.
15Google products are always at risk if being killed. Then again, products from small companies are always at risk of being bought out and killed.
9Can't have shit from Google
2But jamboard was worse than all other whiteboard services. Since it did not get any new features for years it was just a matter of time it was going to be discontinued
1It is/was integrated and simple for students to use and link to. What others do you like?
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I liked that they had special privacy tech other VPNs don't have but they didn't allow you to choose the location so it was unusable for me.
I want my VPN location to be my actual location so that the weather app doesn't mess up and show the wrong city.
13Your weather app should be using your location services which should be based off GPS not your IP address?
6Shouldn't your app just let you pick the location?
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OH NO. anyway
13So, so I get a prorated refund on my Google One subscription, or...?
11This is the best summary I could come up with:
Google is shutting down its VPN by Google One service, according to a vague customer email seen by Android Authority, less than four years after it was rolled out in October 2020.
The email doesn’t specify when this will happen, only that the VPN service will be discontinued “later this year.”
Subscription prices for Google One’s VPN start at $1.99, with availability on Android, iOS, Mac, and Windows.
The company told 9to5Google that it is killing the service because “people simply weren’t using it.” Perhaps its customers were simply spoilt for choice, given this is actually one of three VPN services provided by Google alongside the VPN offerings still available via Google Fi, and Pixel devices from the Pixel 7 on up.
VPN by Google One is the latest offering to get tossed into the infamous “Google Graveyard” just weeks after the Google One cloud storage service announced it had hit a 100 million subscriber milestone.
Google mentioned in its shutdown email that the VPN was being phased out to “focus on providing the most in-demand features and benefits,” which may relate to all the Gemini AI stuff that the company is shoving into Google One.
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7Lol
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