Saturday, May 18

The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard

Google is closing down its VPN by Google One service, according to an unclear client e-mail seen by Android Authorityless than 4 years after it was presented in October 2020. The e-mail does not define when this will take place, just that the VPN service will be ceased “later on this year.”

Membership costs for Google One’s VPN start at $1.99, with schedule on Android, iOS, Mac, and Windows. The business informed 9to5Google that it is eliminating the service due to the fact that “individuals merely weren’t utilizing it.” Maybe its consumers were just ruined for option, provided this is really among 3 VPN services supplied by Google along with the VPN offerings still readily available by means of Google Fi, and Pixel gadgets from the Pixel 7 on up.

VPN by Google One is the most recent offering to get tossed into the notorious “Google Graveyard” simply weeks after the Google One cloud storage service revealed it had actually struck a 100 million customer turning point. Google pointed out in its shutdown e-mail that the VPN was being phased out to “concentrate on supplying the most sought-after functions and advantages,” which might associate with all the Gemini AI things that the business is pushing into Google One.

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