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Users Say Google's VPN App Breaks the Windows DNS Settings

An anonymous reader shares a report: Google offers a VPN via its "Google One" monthly subscription plan, and while it debuted on phones, a desktop app has been available for Windows and Mac OS for over a year now. Since a lot of people pay for Google One for the cloud storage increase for their Goog...

An anonymous reader shares a report: Google offers a VPN via its "Google One" monthly subscription plan, and while it debuted on phones, a desktop app has been available for Windows and Mac OS for over a year now. A VPN would naturally route all your traffic through a secure tunnel, but you've still got to do DNS lookups somewhere. The users in the thread (and the ones emailing us) expect the app, at minimum, to use the original Windows settings when the VPN is off.

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