I have this vpn because it comes for free with my Google Drive subscription. I have never used it because it does not do what I expect it to do

• privacy, it's Google.
• pretend to be in a different country is not available

Another service to add to the pile of things Google barely supported then killed.

Google shutting down a service?! That's a new one. I would have never expected that.

Imagine buying a VPN off google...

Why would I use a Google VPN anyways

TIL they had a VPN

> VPN

> by Google

> Gets shut down

You literally can’t make this stuff up folks

This is why I rarely get on board with new Google products nowadays. I know they'll get half assed support and then be killed off really quickly.

Google, Meta, Microsoft.

Three companies I would never trust as a VPN provider. Not necessarily in that order.

Good, Google has enough access to everyone's data already. Nobody needs to willingly give them even more access by routing all of their traffic through a Google server.

Google One is a huge disappointment.

Google can go to hell.

No doubt, they used this to scrape network traffic.

Another one for the grave yard

ITT people claim that a Google VPN is a bad product for all use cases because Google is not a privacy-respecting company. This ignores all non-privacy use cases for using a VPN.

And even for privacy, this would've been a product where the vendors interest in protecting your privacy and your interest in protecting your privacy aligned in the case where you were not hiding from Google. For example if you used a Chromebook laptop, used the Google Chrome browser, or used Google services like Google Search and Google YouTube, then Google would already know everything about you. You can't hide your activity from them, but they can help you hide it from others.

Similar situations exist for other privacy disrespecting companies like Microsoft and Apple, where a user might reasonably want to hide from everyone other than their vendor of choice, whose product they consider good enough to allow them to see their computer activity as part of their payment. If you already subscribe to one privacy disrespecting vendor, it makes the most sense to go all-in.