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Google One VPN will be discontinued, Pixel VPN remains with upgrade coming(9to5google.com)

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Mereo@lemmy.ca
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Another service to the graveyard: https://killedbygoogle.com/

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henfredemars@infosec.pub
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Another one bites the dust!

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PoliticallyIncorrect@lemm.ee
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Who it the fuck use a Google “VPN”??

LMAO…

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UESPA_Sputnik@lemmy.world
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I use it when I’m staying at hotels and want to use their WiFi, or any other public WiFi, to protect my private data. Google probably has it anyway but there’s no need to share it with another unknown entity.

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Zagorath@aussie.zone
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Most home users of VPNs (as opposed to business users) do so to bypass content restrictions, and don’t give a rat’s arse about the privacy. From their perspective, Google’s offering was probably great.

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Yer Ma@lemm.ee
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It’s the worst VPN anyway

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stormio@lemmy.ca
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No! I recently started going back to the office, so the Google One VPN was an easy way for me to bypass the restrictions on my company’s Wi-Fi network.

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ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.idM
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If you’ve got decent throughput at home buying a rasp pi 3/4 means you can have your own VPN

https://tailscale.com/kb/1103/exit-nodes

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iamroot@discuss.tchncs.de
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Check if cloudflare warp works for you.

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Stefen Auris@pawb.social
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hi guys its just google! so listen we can’t decide on how to brand any of our services so if you don’t like something don’t worry it will be changed in 6 months or less!

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Zagorath@aussie.zone
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Seriously, at this point it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. None of the dedicated users start using a Google service because they know it won’t last. Or maybe they do use it to play around with, but they certainly don’t recommend it to their less enthusiastic social circles. Either way, this severely restricts how much the service can grow by word of mouth. Thus it doesn’t get enough users for Google to consider it viable, and they shut it down. And next time, people are even more cautious about getting invested in a Google tool.

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