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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Send all my traffic to google? No thanks

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

If you use Chrome then you already do.

If you use Firefox and never went into the settings to change the default omnibar settings then you already do.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will Google ask me to solve a captcha while connected to a Google VPN?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This has been around for years.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Google VPN lmao

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (18 children)

I'm super confused by the FUD spread in nearly every comment here.

Pretty much every argument boils down to "we don't trust google does what they say", which is funny because I'd like to challenge anyone to provide evidence that google actually sells any of your data. They sell advertising slots that they promise will find the right people, but your data never leaves google. No advertiser gets to see it.

This VPN service promises and has been independently audited to never log or analyze your traffic and even has built in provisions to anonymize your traffic within Google so they can't reconstruct it.

So apart from the questionable assumption that google is blatantly lying, what's the argument here? Apart from maybe missing some popular VPN Features like country selection.

Also this is for people that already pay for Google storage anyways, so I don't see the problem for the intended target audience, it's sticky an improvement in privacy for them and they get it for free. It sure as hell beats getting your traffic intercepted and ads injected into random http pages like some ISPs do.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apple provides exactly the same service(s) and now with their advertising division, ad slots to the higher bidder too.

But they are portrayed as Jesus while Google is Lucifer.

The default has become Google = bad. It's also fashionable to blame them for all evils . 🤷

I won't be using their VPN because I already paid someone else for a 3 year plan, not because Google is bad.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Our local druglord is offering drug protection for kids at schools! Yey! And at $5 bucks, their service is way cheaper than the war on drugs that the cops keep peddling!

Before I can get the kids to their first drug training, I gotta get the truck fixed, and what better way to do that than Joe? Joe may be the drunkest one eyed blind rheumatic paraplegic mute there is, but he's kept all our cars running pretty good since that one time we accidentally ran him over. The car was making a noise and then it was just fine. Since then we go to Joe's for regular maintenance. Well, it's the alley behind Joe's actually. It might not last, Joe seems to be getting slower and slower and much less talkative. Like the first time we ran him over, he was just blasting his mouth off. Last time he fixed my truck he wasn't moving around as much and there were more flies around him than usual. Anyway, Joe is the way!

And don't let Google trick you. They just want more of your data.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's been around for a bit now. It's free for anyone who pays them for storage. I pay them... But I'll never use that shit. I have zero trust for Google.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Oh my, I thought this was a joke!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I make my own VPN, so no thanks. Not going Google haha

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lately it seems that all too much of my life is spent alternately laughing at things that are so ludicrous that only a blithering moron would fall for them and dejectedly remembering that the world is stuffed to the brim with blithering morons.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I feel this all the time. Like 3 of every 4 headlines I read are so absurd they can't be real, except they are real. We're truly living a comedy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

HAHAHHAHAHAJAHA

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Google's unbelievably aggressive BS is the just about the only reason I run a VPN. Despite taking extraordinary steps to block them, Google still manages to regularly shove their BS into my life.

Google removed "Don't Be Evil" from their mission statement for a reason.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Those both sound like you things

— Brian Griffin said upon learning Quagmire has a win/win relationship with his dentist where he 1) buys nitrous oxide from him and 2) bangs his wife

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I’m going trust my VPN service, which I would probably use for torrenting if I were to get it, with the company that was removing torrenting sites from its users own private bookmark lists. That can’t possibly end badly for me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've had one for years. If you use one of their phones or have their MVNO service you have had access to it. Might have even been turned on by default. Just a heads up.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm surprised they didn't offer one already

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They have, for years. This isn't new.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Ahh so you can pay them to serve you ads now! Neat!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Google does a great job from being tracked by other companies.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

What could possibly go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

you didn't see this two years ago? maybe 3

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