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.
They don’t sell directly. But they sure sell.
This explains it better: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/google-says-it-doesnt-sell-your-data-heres-how-company-shares-monetizes-and
Bruh, I can go to cybersecurity school, study it for a lifetime, audit this service myself, find that it does anonymise and does everything right, and STILL refuse to use it, simply because this just isn’t who you get a VPN service from.
You don’t buy your meat from the town gravekeeper, atleast not as long as there are other butchers, and especially not if the meat comes cheap.
So your argument has nothing to do with the product itself and everything to do with “hurr Durr Google bad”.
Which is fine, and a valid opinion, but has nothing to do with the product.
I’m annoyed because 90% of the comments here imply or outright state that google will use this data for ads or other means, which has no basis in reality.
