Never in a million years would I trust google as my VPN provider.
1) No customer support
2) it will probably be cancelled in 18 months
3) they already spy on me enough with search, android, google keyboard, gmail
1) No customer support
2) it will probably be cancelled in 18 months
3) they already spy on me enough with search, android, google keyboard, gmail
Google One has customer support. Largely, Google One is paid support Google consumer products,. That's actually one of the main selling points. Since this is a feature of a particular Google One tier, it comes with support.
> 2) it will probably be cancelled in 18 months
Probably not.
> 3) they already spy on me enough with search, android, google keyboard, gmail
How would being a VPN (for Android only) provider change that? It doesn't increase Google's ability to spy on you, and it decreases other people's ability to. Which, insofar as your private information is valuable to Google, it makes sense for them to do as effectively as possible, even if you take the most cynical view of their motives.
You're going to have to prove that. Your Android device doesn't send ALL your traffic to Google today. Using this would send ALL your traffic to Google. that 100% means it increases Google's ability to spy on you.
Client source code: https://github.com/google/vpn-libraries
What they're doing - cryptographic blinding that separates authentication from user session - is probably the best approach at subscriber privacy I've seen so far.
I wonder how they'll deal with abuse.
can someone eli5 please?
So, no customer support for non-paying customers, but I don't think that applies here.
The price is zero if you are already on that Google One tier, which is pretty good.
Whether its good if you aren't depends on not just the VPN service itself, but how much you value the other things provided by Google One.