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"WiFi Assistant

Auto-connects you to high quality open WiFi and secures your connection with a VPN back to Google."

Let's hope the VPN can be set to non-Google too, or it's optional or opt-out feature.



You can already have an always-on third party VPN that has nothing to do with Google.

This is just a feature that was on some phones that's rolled out to the base OS now. It's opt in AFAICR, there's a prompt to enable it when you first boot the phone.


It's not when you first boot, it's when you first connect to an unsecured public wifi network. the opt-in is per-network, not just a single opt-in.

and it's not rolled into the base OS either, it's part of "google connectivity services" which is distributed separately.




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