Hello, first time posting here so glad to chat with everyone!
Just curious, do you always use your VPN for your internet traffic, or do you only turn it on when you want to do something that you want more privacy with? Going along with that question, do you use it on all devices as well? Mobile as well as PC?
I use my VPN anytime I am using someone elses internet. Free WIFI access points, hotels, Airbnb, friends houses, …
24/7. Run it on the network level so all devices are always going over VPN. Why just turn it on occasionally? That allows for better timing attacks and unnecessarily exposing your network activity to your ISP for no reason.
how do you guys deal with logging in when vpn is always on? like i start getting logged out and get captchas that my gmail,any other social etc gets logged out,i start getting notifs to relogin,how do you deal with this guys
All of my devices are set to auto connect.
Laptops/desktops use machine certs to auth for pre login to reach AD then switches to user based auth once logged in
Mobile devices are configured via MDM
VPN is disabled on the household connection because the house has redundant tunnels to DC already
All devices including pc and Nvidia shields except mobile. Because we use an app based ad blocker for those
So most of you guys have vpn always on. Do you guys don’t game or you have no effect on ping due to vpn?
My VPN is on 100% of the time.
I have mine to auto connect on startup on my PC, and I keep it on my phone also…
Anytime I’m on wifi, yes.
Im only using vpn via proxy in my plex server for arr apps and torrents .
Yes. I paid for it. I might as well use it as much as possible. The more encryption and obfuscation there is online the harder the NSA and related parties have to work to track it all.
I always use my VPN. I have Wireguard running on my home router to protect all devices and I also use Wireguard when I’m away from home in order to make sure I’m not being tracked around the internet, even while on 5G/LTE on my iPhone.
The best upside to this is that my traffic is always lightning fast, since my ISPs can’t view my traffic and throttle it. Overall, my experience surfing the internet is greatly improved.
Connected to US and UK servers 24/7. Based in Japan and watch US and UK TV on separate devices for ease.
Never use the internet without a VPN
Yes, I use VPN everyday even though every website I visit is already encrypted. I don’t torrent anything, but it is good to use VPN to change locations for streaming etc. It is amazing the shows that are available around the world for free if you have a local IP address.
Only when I’m not home or at a place with public wifi. I’m not too concerned about browsing the web when I’m at family or friends’ houses but will definitely connect to my VPN when using public wifi access points.
On my phone vpn is active 24/7. Because I often use public wifi.
On laptop it depends which network I use.
My personal devices are all connected 24/7 to a VPN and a private DNS with an inbuilt adblocker.
You never know what can happen. I had cases in the past when websites I have accounts on were hacked and got data leaks. Most of the time, hackers got the IP address that the said accounts were connected from. They never got mine and that’s quite a satisfying feeling.
Leave the VPN running all the time, because if you routinely turn VPN off/on, sometimes you may forget and have the VPN off when you’re doing something sensitive.