The Internet giant has announced the availability of Google One VPN for all subscribers. This way the service will be a virtual private network freely available from the cheapest plan of $1.99 per month.

Google released a VPN for subscribers to its cloud storage service a few years ago. But until now, it was only available for premium plans, from 2 TB or higher. It will now be available to all subscribers from the most basic capacity of 100 GB and for Android, iOS, Windows and Mac operating systems.

Google One VPN is targeted for use on public Wi-Fi networks, although it can be used on any other type of connection, securely and privately extending a local network over a public network such as the Internet. In practice, this is a virtual point-to-point connection hide the user’s IP address and redirect internet traffic through an encrypted VPN tunnel.

This degree of “invisibility” offers benefits for example, greater security against cyber attacks and greater privacy against data theft and identity theft. It also allows bypassing internet censorship and other benefits such as connecting an employee from home to an office PC or allowing the user to access geo-blocked multimedia content, existing offers in other countries or connect to P2P networks that are not available in your region of origin. .

Google has added another feature to its VPN, though in this case it will only be available to users in the United States. It’s a report «dark web report». This feature scans the dark web for personal information about customers, such as their name, address, email, phone number, and social security number, and notifies you of what it finds.

Also, say that Google VPN is freely available on the Pixel 7, so if you have (or are about to buy) the company’s most advanced smartphones, you’ll be able to access a virtual private network without having to subscribe to Google One.