The "P" is silent.

A private vpn is an oxymoron. Since you tunnel all your data to some server.

Google and privacy is an oxymoron.

"Google private vpn" would be a mega oxymoron.

And it'll be gone in two years.

Oh sure. Use the company known for mining the fuck out of personal data to protect my personal data from being mined.

This is actually really useful if you want to be tracked more by google

This is funny. Please pipe ALL of your online activities through us. We won't spy, gather, sell, or snitch.

Get fucked.

I'm thinking of the target user for this: For us here it's a really unfunny joke. For the people wanting to do "non-kosher" stuff like watching streaming for other countries or even outright pirating i don't think Google's gonna have their back. People trying to hide their identity while doing compromising stuff (like anything sexual or identity related, not illegal but not something they want in public) hopefully know not to trust Google on this. And corporate users already have their own corporate VPNs, don't think they're aiming for those (yet).

Who the fuck is left as potential user? My only conclusion is the terminally gullible. I see no other option. And since of course there's a sucker born every minute it'll have millions of users...

The point of a VPN is to protect your privacy. Google is the last company I would trust to do that.

Damn, people here really misunderstand the threat surface. The Google VPN is just fine for staying safe from things like rogue wifi hotspots and even Stingray devices to some extent. It's also makes it much harder for your ISP to data mine your web activity. Obviously if you have an Android device using Google services, Google already has access to pretty much any information they might get from the VPN service. If you are de-Googled, then obviously you'd never use this.

For the vast majority of people, privacy should be what happens outside of your curated public image. Everyone has a public image. If you try to be completely dark all the time, chances are you will slip up and just end up in an even worse position because you don't understand when or how you've lost control. This is counterintelligence 101. Real first day stuff, but so many of the 'pop-security' influencers on the internet struggle with it, because they don't have any practical CI training. However, having a public image doesn't mean you cede all control to every observer. Obviously there are many choices for VPNs, but for everyday use, this VPN Google bundles with various other products is generally high quality.

lol hard pass.

A google VPN sounds as sus as huggies condoms.

No fucking way will Google EVER be my VPN.

They want to make sure noone else can steal your data..

This is nothing new It has existed for 3 years now.

if we're being honest this is probably just as good for privacy as most popular vpns (sooo not much and over advertising how much they protect you)

they did release a white paper on how the service works if you trust it's what they're actually doing. https://one.google.com/about/vpn/howitworks

That would be like hiring professional bank robbers with a long string of hits to provide security for a bank.

I'm just upvoting all the "lol", "lmfao" and "hahaha" comments.

They really do think we are all fucking idiots, don't they?

Most people browse with Chrome and possibly with Google's DNS, so this really doesn't make any difference from a privacy standpoint.

Hasn't this been around for a while? I've had the option on my phone since last year. And while Google isn't exactly trustworthy, it's better than some of the shadier free options out there.

It's fast and it's accessible for non-techy people. Certainly better than using an unsecured network with no protection at all.

They've had one for quite a while. My original Google pixel had the option to enable when on unknown wifi ie coffee shops and such. While it provides no value and even negative value for you guys here I can see how it'd be useful for places where you don't trust the network you are on. But that also means you have to trust Google 🤣

Anyone that actually puts their trust in this deserves whatever happens to them

How about we start getting paid for all the information they steal.

Imagine trusting a corrupt mega corp lmao

hahahahahahahaha

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This has been around for years.

😂

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.