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Google Gives Access to VPN Service and Dark Web Report to All Google One Customers

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Google has made changes to its Google One plans yet again, although this time around, its customers are actually getting more for their money. For those not familiar with the Google One service, it's Google's Dropbox, Microsoft's OneDrive and Apple's iCloud. However, Google has included things like support for its services though its One service and higher tiers have seen added benefits beyond more storage space, such as free access to Google's VPN service. Now the company has decided to give those on its 100 GB US$1.99 and 200 GB US$2.99 service tiers access to not only its VPN service, but has also added what the company calls a dark web report.

The dark web report allows you to search for potential stolen private information on the dark web, or rather, Google does the searching for you and tells you if there are any results in a report. The tricky part here is that you need to have the right info to search for in the first place, but it could be something simple like your email address or phone number, but it could also be your credit card details. The VPN service is for the time being limited to 22 countries that you can find in the screenshot below. It's unlikely that Google offers the best VPN service out there, but it could help protect against man in the middle attacks when using public WiFi if nothing else and it's a decent perk if you're already paying for the Google One service.



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Google VPN?? Those words don't sound good together. lol
It's likely to protect you from everyone except Google.

They have the infrastructure to make an incredible VPN.

Question is how they're implementing it.

Yes they've lost the plot in the last few years generally.
Seems to have below average reviews.
 
Now the company has decided to give those on its 100 GB US$1.99 and 200 GB US$2.99 service tiers access to not only its VPN service,

From Google:

*VPN included in Premium 2 TB or higher plans in select countries.

Asterix required, please.
 

Starting today, and rolling out over the next few weeks, we’re expanding VPN access to all Google One plans, including the Basic plan that starts at $1.99/mo.
 
It's unlikely that Google offers the best VPN service out there, but it could help protect against man in the middle attacks when using public WiFi if nothing else and it's a decent perk if you're already paying for the Google One service.
Protect yourself from man in the middle attacks by letting google be the middle man

Yeah, sounds exactly like something the big G would do.
 
Protect yourself from man in the middle attacks by letting google be the middle man

Yeah, sounds exactly like something the big G would do.
Well, at least Google mostly just want to scrape your data so they can give you more ads or sell you something, rather than trying to steal your credit card information or worse...
I didn't say it was a good service.

Keep in mind that a lot of people have Google One accounts and might be interested in this as something they get with their cloud storage. I haven't been given access as yet, so I can't even give you my thoughts on if it's useful or not.
 
oh, yes pay from something that should be free.
Well it is free, if you know to access this so called "Dark web" with a Vpn & the right broswer.
 
oh, yes pay from something that should be free.
Well it is free, if you know to access this so called "Dark web" with a Vpn & the right broswer.
Making a full report from the disparate sources on the dark web will likely be a full time job though.
 
Google VPN allows Google to become the man in the middle. Trust them with your phone, search, purchase, browser and personal information to be the most secure against wrong think.
 
^ Yep. Google would be one of the last companies I'd trust as my VPN provider, lol. I already try to use them as little as possible as a search engine.
 
Sounds like a nice service, what could possibly go wrong?
 
Nah it is

Give Google Access ;)
:roll:

What exactly is this "dark web report"?
Everyone gets aggressive alerts from Google and Apple on compromised credentials.
These days every individual is forced to have 500 accounts, and we only care about 3 of them.
 
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