Do you stay on vpn 24/7 or turn it on whenever you need it?

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨55⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Always on a VPN. My house sends all traffic out through one, and I VPN back to my house when I’m out which puts me on the same connection.

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  • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Tailscale exit node?

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• Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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.

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• _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I keep mine on almost always, runs fine so I usually don’t bother turning it off.

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• kobra@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  When I used Proton or Mullvad I usually had to switch it on and off when needed because of so many issues with sites/games/etc. blocking me. However, the last deal I picked up was for NordVPN and that one I’ve been able to leave connected at all times without any issue.

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  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I will never ever use Nord or any company that floods every channel with sponsored ads

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• twinnie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  On when I need it. Otherwise I’m clicking captchas all day.

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• valar@lemmy.ca ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Always on for everything

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• Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨57⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  If you have a few things that work better without or don't need the VPN, like some games, a good VPN will have a tunneling feature to let that one thing through while staying on for everything else.

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• PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Always on out of spite

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• akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Mullvad on a router, so always on, because it’s nobody’s business who I am and what I do and where I do it. In there rare case that I need to use a service that blocks Mullvad, I just use my phone that has their toggleable app.

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• neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Depends on where I am and what I’m doing. When on work travel, I VPN home. When I’m home I VPN to work. Outside of that, I don’t really use VPNs.

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