Bit of an uphill fight with captchas everywhere. Do people here conduct all online activity over VPN whenever possible? Only for the sensitive stuff? Or perhaps the inverse because the bank already knows you? Maybe when travelling or getting around region blocking? Something else?
The one provided by my work aside, I realized that I don’t have any consistent rules around using VPN. Except sometimes, you know, when downloading ISO’s for my favorite distos.
Alll the time with kill switch ON.
On at all times at the router level. Because it’d be annoying to selectively disable it. My VPN isn’t really an anonymity feature anyway; I have a dedicated browser profile for things like banking where I intend the fingerprint to be associated with my government identity.
I have a VPN configured at the router. I use a PI-hole with a lot of restrictions and lists to run my own DNS and downstream DNS is Adgaurd. Several machines I let bypass the VPN umbrella and they have local clients they can switch on at will. I’d like to make a Linux firewall too but not with prices where they are now. These days you have to distrust everything.
Pretty much always. If someone blocks my VPN, I just don’t go there or don’t use that. Sucks but it is what it is. I’m just not willing to enter your site bareback.
I literally can’t comment on Lemmy if I’m using a VPN so what are you taking about? XD
absolutely at all time. I can’t say that I see many captchas. I think the last one was for some site I used a couple weeks back that used google recaptcha. it’s pretty rare for me to see one.
I use a VPN 99% of the time, i turn it off when i need to access archive.org, or watch something on the public braordcasters streaming platform
yeah sure the captchas are annoying but it’s not like websites load within 10 seconds anymore
I only wish protonVPN was a good as the one i used previously, but i cancelled it cause it had ties to israel
You might want to check into split tunneling.
I leave mine on almost all the time. If a website takes a little longer to load “Oh no” its a half second instead of milliseconds. it really doesn’t change my life much.
always on
Most of the time, but I would emphasize always in airports or public wifi
100% of the time I’m behind a vpn.
98% of the time. I hate having to turn it off to look at my local grocery store’s website but I have done it before.
General activity goes out the VPN always. My self hosted setup, lab stuff, and work stuff gets different connections out (logically, not physically).
24/7 on any device except my home PC.
I use tor for everything.
Everything??? Sounds slow
If you use Tor Browser in the “safest” security setting, websites will actually load pretty fast since javascript will be disabled. Well, at least for the websites that load at all
The internet is fast where I live, so there’s no noticeable speed difference.
Illive in a country with the world’s fastest internet speeds and I notice performance differences
Maybe you’re not using a bridge?
No, no need to use a bridge where I am.
Interesting. I didn’t know a bridge made so much difference in performance. If only this could be improved.
Sounds like you’ve got a shit VPN if it’s slow for you
AfricanExpansionist is saying that using Tor for everything sounds slow, not that a VPN sounds slow.
UK porn ban, always-on VPN
