Friday, March 10th 2023
Google Gives Access to VPN Service and Dark Web Report to All Google One Customers
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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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.
16 Comments on Google Gives Access to VPN Service and Dark Web Report to All Google One Customers
Question is how they're implementing it.
Yes they've lost the plot in the last few years generally.
www.techradar.com/reviews/google-one-vpn
www.zdnet.com/article/security-researchers-take-a-look-at-googles-vpn-by-google-one-app/
Yeah, sounds exactly like something the big G would do.
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.
Well it is free, if you know to access this so called "Dark web" with a Vpn & the right broswer.
Give Google Access ;)
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.