Google is shutting down its VPN by Google One service, in keeping with a obscure buyer electronic mail seen by Android Authority, lower than 4 years after it was rolled out in October 2020. The e-mail doesn’t specify when it will occur, solely that the VPN service might be discontinued “later this yr.”
Subscription costs for Google One’s VPN begin at $1.99, with availability on Android, iOS, Mac, and Home windows. The corporate informed 9to5Google that it’s killing the service as a result of “individuals merely weren’t utilizing it.” Maybe its clients have been merely spoilt for alternative, given that is really one among three VPN companies supplied by Google alongside the VPN choices nonetheless out there through Google Fi, and Pixel gadgets from the Pixel 7 on up.
VPN by Google One is the most recent providing to get tossed into the notorious “Google Graveyard” simply weeks after the Google One cloud storage service introduced it had hit a 100 million subscriber milestone. Google talked about in its shutdown electronic mail that the VPN was being phased out to “give attention to offering probably the most in-demand options and advantages,” which can relate to all of the Gemini AI stuff that the corporate is shoving into Google One.