VPN by Google One shuts down

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37 points·thelastgallon··11 comments

Google discontinuing a product? No.

When it was originally announed in April: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40571925 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40010047 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40027182

- "Not shocking. Their VPN app sucked ass."

- "Yeah, their client was pretty bad"

- "You couldn't choose a server outside your country"

- various takes and jokes that Google discontinues a lot of products

> You couldn't choose a server outside your country

That’s like one of the top reasons people use a consumer grade VPN.

The Google One VPN was never meant to compete with the likes of Mullvad or PIA. It was more along the line of Cloudflare’s Warp or Apple’s Private Relay.

Right, but it wasn't the feature Google was offering. They were offering privacy.

Them being the largest surveillance organization in the world makes that a bit of a tricky value prop.

LOL....

Privacy, just not privacy from Google, kind of like browsing in incognito.

The top reason in this case is not the right reason.

I think it is reasonable to offer a product that only tries to tackle the security side of vpn market.

For what is worth Google consumer VPN is not dead and lives on as a feature for pixel phones.

wasn't this the VPN that was stated as a great feature for getting a pixel that all pixel users get? It's gone already? Wasn't that with Pixel 7 only when launched?

I am genuinely surprised the Pixel line isn't gone yet. Frankly I didn't even expect it to come out after the Motorola disaster. Glad I can still be surprised by Google not shutting down something.

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