I am trying to understand how Freedome works.
Let’s say I have Freedome running on my phone, and for sake of argument, the VPN routes traffic to a server with IP 123.456.789.10.
I connect to a wi-fi connection not my own. I visit www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive and read a few posts about planes, trains and automobiles.
What does the wi-fi network admin see, both outgoing and incoming?
Does the admin see I visited 123.456.789.10 or www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive? What about the return traffic?
Note: I’ve read several posts from search results, but still do not fully understand. Thank you for your patience.
Essentially you’re encrypting your network traffic at your end, sending it over the internet to the VPN server, who decrypts it and then behaves just like your own home internet service. If you’re using HTTPS, that encryption is still secure, it’s just doubly encrpyted - once from your browser to the final destination server, and a second time over the VPN.
An admin on your local network would be able to see that you’re connecting to 123.456.789.10, and are using a VPN protocol, but wouldn’t be able to read any traffic between two two. The web server on the other end would see your internet traffic as coming from one of the VPN’s many servers, meaning that it can’t personally identify you or your location based on your IP address.