Comment on Do you stay on vpn 24/7 or turn it on whenever you need it?
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 3 days ago
Usually on a needed basis. Some pages are blocked where i am and those do get the exception for my regional locking hatred.
Otherwise, i don’t really care. Though I’m open to reasons why i should care.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I default to on, and turn it off if I need something that is blocking me and there’s no workaround.
Although the traffic itself is protected, I find the signal of «I am doing something “secret” right now» to be best avoided both for passive metadata collection as well as active correlation attacks reasons; as well as to avoid leaks by clicking some link or just loading an image from some server that might be more “revealing” than I’d like. I’m not talking about anything super spicy, for example just by being a Lemmy user the image hosts you see more can depend on the comms/instances you use the most often - a pretty small segment.