[dragonwriter]

> 1) No customer support

Google One has customer support. Largely, Google One is paid support Google consumer products,. That's actually one of the main selling points. Since this is a feature of a particular Google One tier, it comes with support.

> 2) it will probably be cancelled in 18 months

Probably not.

> 3) they already spy on me enough with search, android, google keyboard, gmail

How would being a VPN (for Android only) provider change that? It doesn't increase Google's ability to spy on you, and it decreases other people's ability to. Which, insofar as your private information is valuable to Google, it makes sense for them to do as effectively as possible, even if you take the most cynical view of their motives.

[causality0]

Being a paid Google consumer product means absolutely fucking nothing. See also: Revolv, Nest Security, Google Fi customer support.

[part1of2]

> It doesn't increase Google's ability to spy on you

You're going to have to prove that. Your Android device doesn't send ALL your traffic to Google today. Using this would send ALL your traffic to Google. that 100% means it increases Google's ability to spy on you.

[lima]

Read their whitepaper: https://www.gstatic.com/subscriptions/marketing_page/vpn/whi...

Client source code: https://github.com/google/vpn-libraries

What they're doing - cryptographic blinding that separates authentication from user session - is probably the best approach at subscriber privacy I've seen so far.

I wonder how they'll deal with abuse.

[gaara87]

> What they're doing - cryptographic blinding that separates authentication from user session - is probably the best approach at subscriber privacy I've seen so far.

can someone eli5 please?