They won’t at the vpn connection but they will elsewhere. And they can design the vpn to make tracking at other layers more possible.
> your IP is not associated to your activity
Does this mean your incoming IP, or your outgoing IP? And if payment info or Google identity is associated with your activity, why would they need to bother associating an IP to your activity?
If you read the article then you would already know the answer to this question. They are using a blinding protocol so that the service that terminates the VPN is unaware of the identity of the user.
Re:VPN by Google One
by kennywinker on Thursday October 29, 2020 @05:50PM
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And yet this product is being built by an advertising company who's business model revolves around tracking your online activities to sell you to advertisers, which makes me deeply suspicious that there isn't some way using this makes you more trackable (by them) than using a different VPN
"1. Some minimum logging is performed to ensure quality of service, but your network traffic is never logged and your IP is not associated to your activity."
Even with that fairly well spelled out promise, I trust google about as much as I trust $RANDO_VPN, so... hardly at all?