Google took the wraps off their all new perk for Google One subscribers in a recent blog post – which is a VPN. Subscribers with Google One plan of 2TB storage data will get access to this new perk on their Android phones in the upcoming weeks.
The new VPN would roll out to other platforms which includes iOS and Windows and other countries as well. For now, it will be active only in United States.
Using VPN on Android phone is very easy. First open the Google One app, toggle at the VPN and internet data on the phone gets encrypted and it would not matter which phone or browser a person is using.
It looks like a great perk for the service people are already paying for but it cannot be imagined how customers would respond to this. Google is driven completely by data which makes the bulk of its revenue off monitoring internet data. It looks like a conflict of interest for providing VPN, and mainly the one that is free.
Google has laid out what it does on the sign-up page and it looks legit. Google also says that it would never use the VPN for tracking, log or sell the browsing activity outside minimum logging used to ensure the service quality. It further adds that our network traffic is logged and the IP is not linked to our activity. This looks pretty on-the-level.
Google is making VPN by Google One libraries open-source and would have its end-to-end services getting audited independently in 2021.
This sounds good but still seems strange for a made-by-Google VPN to exist. Google One subscribers doesn’t have to use the service, so if they feel strange about it, they need to stick with a third-party service. If users are OK wuth it though they got a free VPN on their phone and soon, on other devices. This doesn’t look bad.