According to an ambiguous customer email obtained by Android Authority, Google is discontinuing its VPN by Google One VPN service, which was launched less than four years ago in October 2020. The email just states that the VPN service will be terminated “later this year,” without indicating when this will occur.
Google One VPN Service is about to end its service by the end of this year
It was a component of Google One‘s Premium 2TB storage package when it first launched, which cost $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year. All Google One plans, including the most modest one for $1.99 a month, were made available last year, greatly increasing its affordability.
Although Google purposefully left the email unclear, a representative for the company told 9to5Google that the VPN was being discontinued for the straightforward reason that “people weren’t using it.”
Only a few weeks after the Google One cloud storage service said it had reached the milestone of 100 million subscribers, VPN by Google One is the most recent product to be thrown into the notorious “Google Graveyard”.
The VPN was being phased out to “focus on providing the most in-demand features and benefits,” as Google stated in its termination email. This may have something to do with all the Gemini AI stuff the firm is cramming into Google One.
