Microsoft Defender’s VPN feature will be killed off at the end of February

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Defender’s VPN feature will be killed off at the end of February

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is getting rid of the VPN offered through

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Defender. As spotted by

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, the company updated for privacy protection, its built-in VPN, to notify users that the service will end on February 28. The VPN was bundled with

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Defender, which is available to anyone with a personal or family

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365 subscription, and it offered private browsing by “routing your internet traffic through

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servers,” up to the monthly data limit of 50GB.

In a statement about the decision posted on the support page,

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said, “Our goal is to ensure you, and your family remain safer online. We routinely evaluate the usage and effectiveness of our features. As such, we are removing the privacy protection feature and will invest in new areas that will better align to customer needs.” Android users might still see the

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Defender VPN profile in their settings after the expiration date, which they’ll need to remove manually if they want it gone. “Action is not required by Windows, iOS, and macOS users,”

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notes.

The company also says this is the only feature getting killed off for now. According to

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, “device protection and identity theft and credit monitoring (US) features will continue.”

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