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[-] exi@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] original_reader@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago
[-] exi@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Of all the replies, this is the first one to actually make a good point instead of random google-bad handwaving.

Thank you

[-] intrepid@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

Google is an ad company first, and everything else later. There are countless examples of them pushing tracking technologies that nobody wants - AMP, FLOC/Privacy sandbox, manifest v3 to kill adblockers. The list is just too long. At this point, any argument in favor of Google is just astroturfing.

[-] BC3XAu3IjGbZYNQl@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

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.

I don't like Apple either.

[-] Mikesomething@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Anecdotally: i got Google VPN free w my Google one sub, used it to pirate some movies. still got a warning from Comcast (for one of the star wars movies, iirc).

Went right back to Mullvlad. Speeds were better anyway.

this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2023
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