Google is getting ready to test a new "IP Protection" feature for the Chrome browser that enhances users' privacy by masking their IP addresses using proxy servers.
by making it so that it is hidden to anyone, except for google. It is not possible to hide your ip completely online. Your ip address is the only way for anyone to reach you. The only way to hide your ip from someone is to have someone else (who does know your ip address) make the request on your behalf, and forward data forward and back between the two endpoints. Everything has to go through the middleman.
It’s a Google VPN, which means they own it, which means they see literally everything you do if you use it, rather than just seeing what you do if you visit a page with their tracking and you don’t block their cookies and scripts.
The difference is that those companies presumably don’t run the biggest advertising agency in the world, don’t cooperate with governments, and don’t log your history or original IP address. Using Google as a VPN provider in oppressive countries that punish free speech online could present a serious hazard. Plus there’s just the overall privacy issue too.
by making it so that it is hidden to anyone, except for google. It is not possible to hide your ip completely online. Your ip address is the only way for anyone to reach you. The only way to hide your ip from someone is to have someone else (who does know your ip address) make the request on your behalf, and forward data forward and back between the two endpoints. Everything has to go through the middleman.
Google will be that middleman
Google is ready for that “sacrifice” on your behalf.
Yup, they will get access to literally everything you do online.
The joke’s on them: I do nothing online in a literal fashion. #litchally
Yeah but Google will know it either way, so it really doesn’t matter. Not that IPs really matter anyway.
Google wouldn’t know it either way. What even is this sentiment? Google doesn’t own the internet. Don’t use their services and use a VPN.
they know your ip anyway. everyone does. It’s your only identifier online. I’d rather not send all my data through them anyway.
That’s why you use a VPN.
this is a vpn.
It’s a Google VPN, which means they own it, which means they see literally everything you do if you use it, rather than just seeing what you do if you visit a page with their tracking and you don’t block their cookies and scripts.
as opposed to someone else seeing all your traffic, if it were owned by anyone else.
The difference is that those companies presumably don’t run the biggest advertising agency in the world, don’t cooperate with governments, and don’t log your history or original IP address. Using Google as a VPN provider in oppressive countries that punish free speech online could present a serious hazard. Plus there’s just the overall privacy issue too.
Ironically you’re probably writing on the most tracked OS ever, odds are.