TE
TechEcho
Home24h TopNewestBestAskShowJobs
GitHubTwitter
Home

TechEcho

A tech news platform built with Next.js, providing global tech news and discussions.

GitHubTwitter

Home

HomeNewestBestAskShowJobs

Resources

HackerNews APIOriginal HackerNewsNext.js

© 2025 TechEcho. All rights reserved.

Ask HN: Would Google be forcing its VPN on Chrome users?

1 pointsby delduca8 months ago
Recently, I set up a new PC with Windows and installed Chrome. Then, I went to check the speed on fast.com and noticed that the speed was half of my MacBook (both connected via cable). I thought it might be the cable, a bad connection, or something like that. After troubleshooting, I decided to check my IP address online, and to my surprise, it showed Google LLC in São Paulo, about 1500 kilometers from where I live, as my ISP!<p>I searched through Chrome&#x27;s settings and found nothing. This doesn&#x27;t happen in Edge.<p>Could Google be forcing a VPN by default for a possible MITM?

1 comment

mtmail8 months ago
&quot;I decided to check my IP address online&quot; - that database might be outdated, especially the location. It&#x27;s hard to pinpoint cloud IP addresses (data centers) to locations. I regularly see some of my website user sending HTTP requests from Google Cloud and later it turned out they used a feature in Google Docs.
评论 #41659748 未加载