I’ve never completely understood this, but I think the answer would probably be “no,” although I’m not sure. Usually when I leave the house I turn off wifi and just use mobile data (this is a habit from my pre-VPN days), although I guess I should probably just keep it on since using strange Wi-Fi with a VPN is ok (unless someone at Starbucks is using the evil twin router trick . . . ?). I was generally under the impression that mobile data is harder to interfere with than Wi-Fi, but I could well be wrong and my notions out of date. So, if need be, please set me straight. 🙂
Usually when I leave the house I turn off wifi and just use mobile data
I would stronly recommend that you set your wifi to only join trusted networks. That way you can also just leave the wifi on and not have it connect to every random network it encounters.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 5 months ago
You’re hiding your traffic route from your mobile operator and giving it instead to your vpn company who swear they are honest
rudyharrelson@kbin.social 5 months ago
I run my own wireguard VPN at home and connect to it from my phone when I'm traveling.
Grant's me privacy (but not anonymity) from my mobile carrier. Sure, my home ISP still sees my VPN's traffic, but that's still one less company able to monitor my web traffic when I'm mobile.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 5 months ago
Running your own VPN in that situation is a good use-case agreed - assuming you trust yourself :)
giloronfoo@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Same. Also feels a bit safer connecting to public wifi.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Well facebook VPN waa sniffing data to see what other aocial media the person was using. But something like Proton that prides itself on privacy and encryption should be fine
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 5 months ago
Absolutely. Unless they’re actually evil. Which I’m sure they aren’t. But they could be.