I'm as skeptical about Google's privacy efforts as the next person, but I think most existing commercial VPNs are even worse.
They gain ISP-level insights into your traffic, and history has shown that at least some of them aren't really more trustworthy than the worst ISPs out there (in that they've also been caught selling or at least collecting customer traffic flows, despite all the promises to not keep any logs).
MASQUE is a much better take on browsing privacy. I really do hope that today's VPN providers will be tomorrow's MASQUE proxy providers.
I won't disagree there. In fact if I was the NSA/CIA/etc, I'd just make a VPN provider, and let the traffic roll in, no need to goto the traffic, if they just give it to you, and you get the ability to have trusted access to their machine to boot...
Yes, I know OpenVPN, etc. But 'cmon, we know people would fall for the above :).
I'm as skeptical about Google's privacy efforts as the next person, but I think most existing commercial VPNs are even worse.
They gain ISP-level insights into your traffic, and history has shown that at least some of them aren't really more trustworthy than the worst ISPs out there (in that they've also been caught selling or at least collecting customer traffic flows, despite all the promises to not keep any logs).
MASQUE is a much better take on browsing privacy. I really do hope that today's VPN providers will be tomorrow's MASQUE proxy providers.