VPN by Google One
Google is shutting down its subscription-based VPN by Google One service later in 2024, with the function heading to the Google Graveyard as a consequence of being underused by its prospects.
Google One is the search big’s cloud storage service, permitting customers to increase how a lot they’ll retailer on-line, in addition to enabling quite a few further options. As a part of its shake-up of the service, the VPN component goes to be taken away.
In an e mail to subscribers seen by Android Authority, Google explains quite a few modifications that will probably be making on Might 15. Together with opening up AI-based Google Images options to extra customers, it’s also going to part out two advantages.
Together with ending free delivery for print orders from Google Images from Might 15, it would even be limiting entry to VPN by Google One later in 2024. Present customers might be pointed within the path of different providers, and different options of the subscription will proceed to function as regular.
The change largely impacts subscribers of the service who don’t use Google’s {hardware}. The corporate says that Pixel customers will nonetheless be capable of entry VPN from Google utilizing a Pixel 7 or newer machine through machine settings.
Customers of Google Fi may even be unaffected by the change, with that service nonetheless providing VPN entry to customers.
Google defined to 9to5Google that the VPN is being discontinued because it discovered “folks merely weren’t utilizing it.” It provides that the depreciation of the function will permit the group to refocus on extra in-demand parts of Google One.
In March 2023, Google expanded entry to its VPN to all Google One subscribers, together with iPhone and Android customers.
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