Google VPN is perhaps one of the lesser-known services the company offers its users, and for good reason; it’s not available as an individual app, but is only offered as part of Google One, the package that includes cloud storage with Google Drive.
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Concretely, you can only use Google’s VPN if you pay at least 9.99 dollars per month that the Premium version of Google One costs, and that includes 2 TB of cloud storage (or 5 TB for 24, 99 dollars per month). But why pay for a VPN?
Google VPN is coming to Windows and Mac
A VPN is a private network of servers that we can connect to in order to hide our connection. When we go to visit a web page, instead of connecting directly to the server that owns it, our data passes through an intermediate server; Therefore, the website does not know certain data, such as our IP address or our location (although there are ways to continue to identify users).
On Android, Google VPN is an option that allows us to gain privacy and security. In addition to acting as an intermediary, Google also encrypts the connection, so that potential attackers cannot intercept it and obtain our data.
Google VPN for Windows
Now Google also offers this service on computers, Windows and Mac, with the launch of the official program for both operating systems. If we already have a Google One of at least 2TB, we can download the application directly from the Google One page, where we can also see the advantages we have for contracting the service.
It is a simple program, especially compared to other VPN services available in the market; but perhaps that’s precisely what makes it so appealing to the average user, who doesn’t have to rack their brains over the technical details.
Google VPN for Mac
Of course, Google VPN is less good than the competition on one specific detail: it is not possible to change the country from which you are connecting. Many VPN services offer us the possibility of choosing where we want our connection to come from, which allows us to “fool” the web page we are visiting. It is a function that is mainly used to bypass the regional blocking of certain websites or streaming services, and it is perhaps for this reason that Google has decided not to offer this option.
