Google One VPN axed for everyone but Pixel loyalists ... for now

In an incredibly rare move, Google is killing off one of its online services – this time, VPN for Google One. The Chocolate Factory announced it would take the virtual private network offering offline in an email to Google One subscribers and Pixel smartphone owners. The note detailed several changes to Google One that would …

[Anonymous Coward]

I do have a Pixel 7, and I had never heard of it. No wonder people aren't using it...

Also, looks like it can't be used to pretend you're in a different country, which is the main reason most people use VPNs.

[Anonymous Coward]

Same here. Never heard of it and even if I had would not trust Google for that function.

If there's a way to log anything on a VPN they'll have every option switched on no doubt and the feds will have their own logins.

[Dan 55]

Trust issues

I for one am shocked that one of the world's biggest data slurpers had problems selling their VPN service.

[abend0c4]

Re: Trust issues

There's private and there's virtually private...

[ecofeco]

Googlesoft?

Hard to tell the difference between MS and google these days what with all the EEE* over the last 10 years.

(*embrace, extend, extinguish for you newbs)

[CowHorseFrog]

Y ou would think that a company whos primary purpose is to spy on people, would give VPNs away for the simple fact acookies arent a perfect way to track ever single site a person visits, while a VPN because its a man in the middle literally sees every single request not only for browsers but for everything.

[MONK_DUCK]

Let me guess that they don't cut the price of Google One when they do turn it off. For those who did buy it with that feature included. To be fair it worked pretty well in hotels and the few odd places with open WiFi.

[very angry man]

Never ever again

I have a pixel 5+ what a piece of shit,

Sales said it is the most secure phone on the market,

It will unlock in bag or pocket and call strangers in Foran county's, the touch is intermittent, but it's tough, ive chucked it, on the floor, out the window, at the wall just won't frack'n die, of course won't access the bank, when the NSA decides my account has no money, has gigs of data that doesn't Go through the VPN, and can't tell me what data & where it is going to, for fug,s sake my last Chinese phone doesn't do this shit / hides it better