I am a newcomer to using a vpn service. I have never really worried much about who knows what I look at etc. Nothing special here. Only download things I don’t own on rare occasion.
What I have come to realize - or think about in my mind, Is that the amount of personal info about me that may be public already is one thing. It is another thing to think about what info can be gleaned from ones internet traffic/history that could lead to one or more accounts being compromised.
So I have been using a password manager this year, starting to update all my accounts with better passwords - and being able to have easier and more secure method of access than writing passwords down in a journal.
The vpn I have been trying out seems to be a good fit for me. Cross platform, user friendly, blah blah blah.
tldr - my vpn is set to auto-start on my pc, shield tv, and andriod phones. I only turn it off if the need arises. Have not turned it off yet solely for speed reasons.
Nope, I don’t use Google. I am with duckduckgo.
Plus the VPN I am using now is not the so called top 10 vpns you would find it on the net so their IPs are not blacklisted yet. I rarely got captcha.
If a VPN is properly set up and they are on a regular IP rotation, this should not be a problem at all. Which VPN are you using?
Yes. Google in the BG, wifi connectivity tests, app regular updates, etcetc.
Sure, how do you think all those apps and services get their data? Mostly simple web requests. You’re no more “protected” in an app, less so in several cases. Some app makers try and roll their own encryption and that is always a bad idea!
Modern “phones” in general are your biggest data leak. Being computers that monitor your contacts, messaging, location, nearby devices, screen time, etc. it is hard to secure them. Attempts are being made, but it has a learning curve with a lot of plateaus.
Facebook and WhatsApp disclose the most information out of any app I can think of. Whatsapp analyzes your messages and I wouldn’t put it past Facebook to scan your network
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