Pixel 7 FREE VPN Explained!

all right the VPN is here for the pixel

7 and 7 Pro I made a video two days ago

talking about how it was rolling out and

it did and now I finally got it on my

phones so I had a couple folks that

wanted to kind of explanation of what a

VPN is what kind of benefits it has how

it works out for you and we'll kind of

take a look at it real quick but it's

very simple and easy straightforward not

a whole lot to It ultimately a VPN is

something that's supposed to help give

you privacy and make things more

Anonymous when you're on the Internet

it's harder to track you your location

your data and your information and

that's a good thing and if you watch any

Tech videos which I'm sure you probably

have there's a whole bunch of them

you've probably seen sponsored ad spots

for like nordvpn and surf shark and all

sorts of other ones so this one is built

and baked straight into the phone and

you might have some familiarity with it

because you could already get it with

pixel phones if you paid for the monthly

subscription the Google one plan it it

was like 9.99 I think and it comes with

two terabytes of cloud storage and it

also comes with the VPN so if you had

that already you're probably very

familiar with it this is very simple and

straightforward and what it does is it

kind of hide your identity when in your

information when you're on the internet

it kind of bounces things around I wish

you could change the location so a lot

of times with vpns it's especially

helpful if you're in like another

country

so let's say for instance I was in

Germany a couple of months ago I wanted

to watch HBO Max but it didn't work over

there like they don't they don't have it

set up where you can watch HBO Max it's

not licensed to work over in Germany if

I had a VPN that would allow me to

change my location it could have I could

have diverted my traffic using a US

server and then they would have that my

information as far as HBO Max was

concerned it would think that I was

dialing in from the USA and then I could

have watched it unfortunately that's not

something that you can do with the VPN

that's in here I wish you could maybe at

some point in time they'll make that

available but one nice thing is it's

built into the phone you don't have to

turn on any apps it's already there and

once you turn it on it's very easy to

see it shows up right here and it says

VPN is connected so you can do two

things right here just on the drop down

on the quick display you can hit the

button to disable VPN which is nice or

you can hit the snooze button and you're

probably wondering why would you want to

snooze a VPN well sometimes when you're

using a VPN certain apps don't want to

connect to their servers so maybe it

could be a banking app maybe it could be

something different I don't know but you

might need to temporarily turn off the

VPN to allow that data to get through

the way it's intended to

and then that way you can use it so you

could just hit the quick display

settings click snooze real quick or tap

for those of you who want to nitpick tap

on the on the uh on the snooze and then

it'll temporarily disable it for a few

minutes and then you can get the data

through and then it'll just turn itself

right back on versus if you disable it

then you got to go in and turn it back

on manually but it's nice because it's

in your quick settings and also

you can get there through the Google one

app so I have mine right here on my home

screen Google one so when you first fire

it up it's going to tell you a little

bit about it when it fires up but you

can set it to snooze for five minutes

which is right here and then you can

well add five more minutes or you can

end the snooze which is nice you can use

a little switch there and toggle it

directly off and here let's do a

top-down approach and I'll show you

we'll just do a we'll do a brief

walkthrough and I'll show you what the

VPN settings look like

so this is basically what it looks like

whenever you open up Google one and you

go to the VPN then that's pretty much it

so I mean you've got different stuff in

Google one down here you can see home

you can see storage you can see benefits

you see the different icons here how

much of your storage is full cleanup

your VPN and your backup so got the VPN

set up so while the VPN on your Android

device you can reduce online tracking by

hiding your IP address your IP address

is something that's used commonly for

ads for tracking for knowing what your

identity is on your computer so that's

something that it's scrubs so whatever

you're sending data out usually that's

how your device devices identified like

an address

it doesn't have that and then you can

stay protected from hackers or unsecured

networks like on public Wi-Fi

when you're on public Wi-Fi it's

especially important to try and scrub

this data and to hide this data and to

send your information to secure it and

divert it elsewhere so that way it makes

it less likely while you're out in a

public space that somebody can get

access to your information you're not on

your home firewall you don't have all

your home security guards on your

routers and stuff like that so this

makes it more Anonymous when you're in a

public space that's really good and then

browse the web with a secure and private

connection

same thing as much as you're sending

data back and forth in those connections

that you have and also it does even

though Google has this VPN setup Google

is not tracking this data Google is not

associating it with your Google account

so even though you have your IP identity

scrub there's no IP associated with it

it also doesn't associate your Google

account with it which is especially

important too so those are some great

things and then you can go into the

settings and there's not a whole lot

here maybe they'll add more stuff later

I really hope they do I really want them

to create it where you can go select

different regions or countries that

would be really nice so anything the ad

will be here in the future but so all

they have for advanced settings right

now is to allow certain apps to bypass

now that's something like I talked about

where you would want to snooze it real

quick if you have certain apps that have

trouble getting data out then you can

have it where they are not where it

bypasses the VPN every time that you use

them so it's very easy to add that onto

there and if you're having problems with

connectivity or a certain functionality

with your apps working why while using

the VPN then that's something that you

would maybe want to consider doing so

that's pretty much it for now there's

not a whole lot in here

I just want to go through and talk about

some of this stuff and also right here

using apps from the VPN is on I I kind

of broke this down already but it says

most apps will load when the VPN is on

but some won't if this happens you can

update your settings to allow apps to

ignore the VPN which is what we just

talked about so that's just kind of some

gee whiz stuff there but it's nice to

have and also it's in your quick

settings as well to access it so that's

that's basically the VPN for Google in a

nutshell

okay so that's all I've got hopefully

this explanation was helpful for you

hopefully I helped out a little bit and

now you got some more peace of mind you

understand what the benefits are of

having it and if you want to use it when

you should use it when you shouldn't use

it all that good stuff and there you are

you're more educated on what a VPN is

and hopefully enjoying it for free with

your pixel 7 and 7 Pro so that's all

I've got if you have any questions or

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