I have, yeah. While I was traveling internationally and the roaming mobile data rates were insane. So I used the VPN while connecting to hotel/public wifi.
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explodes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Anyone here even use this?
baronvonj@lemmy.world 8 months ago
xnx@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Wait how does that help with roaming charges?
starman@programming.dev 8 months ago
Instead of using mobile data he used public Wi-fi through VPN.
xnx@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Oh like the vpn is just to encrypt traffic on the public wifi it doesnt help with roaming itself. That makes sense
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Just use the free tier of Proton VPN, it’s a million times better
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A way to give Google even more of my personal data? I’m good, thanks.
flumph@programming.dev 8 months ago
I use it when I’m traveling and am on insecure WiFi.
However, it doesn’t let you pick your egress location,.so if you’re trying to get to PornHub in Texas, it won’t help.
kescusay@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve never even heard of it. They sure weren’t putting their VPN front and center.
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If you have Google one you can download the Google one app there’s a list of things you get in there and to redeem it from the app
HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
I do when on unencrypted wifi
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah I use it all the time. For one you can download torrents at full speed with it. And it’s great for when you are connecting to random wifi connections at restaurants and other businesses. Everyone in all of the threads has been like huurrr durrr Google for privacy hyuk hyuk, while giving themselves a reach around for being so smart. That’s not the point of this VPN. It was a great tool that was a good value add to a storage service I already pay for.
A quick lightweight security tool for situations that require minimal security, which frankly for the public at large is all they ever need, the boogeyman is in fact not hacking your local coffee shop wifi work zombie access nodes, relax. It was also pretty handy when tmobile wants to throttle YouTube you could pop this on and get back to videos without buffering.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I didn’t trust Google enough to torrent but definitely used it on my pixel while traveling. Especially when at relatives houses. I don’t need my DNS requests being logged by their router.
I very much felt like you: it’s a convenient feature-add for something I was paying for. I did not use it for privacy. I used it for convenience.
JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Most people who truly care about privacy wouldn’t use google products at all, including their remote storage or whatever you’re using that makes this an inexpensive add-on.
There are plenty of affordable remote storage and vpn services that aren’t google that have much better track records on privacy and don’t owe $7,000,000 in fines for an antitrust case.
It’s nice that you’re saying people believe they’re super smart and make 4chan style noises because they write that they don’t like google for a privacy product, but I have to tell you: you do not need to give yourself a reach-around. Your genitals are on the front of your bod.