Allways use your vpn and just spit tunnel things that don't work with them eg freetube. If you're getting captchas lots you could look into getting a residential socks5 proxy, I use mullvad's socks5 they wont be as good as a residential one though.
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Unless it's absolutely necessary, vpn and kill switch stay on.
UK porn ban, always-on VPN
Always. Wireguard is easy to setup and work like a charm.
Truenas + wireguard for pc, server and phone. Always everywhere.
100% of the time.
My VPN turns on automatically when I leave my home lan. I don't use split-tunneling, so all my traffic goes back to home before going to internet.
Always.
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.
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.
Alll the time with kill switch ON.
Phone > WireGuard Tunnel to my House = Reap the benefits of my PiHole and other hosted services > WireGuard Tunnel to ProtonVPN endpoint = Reap the benefits of appearing outside my country
Essentially created my own multi-hop VPN, which I use 24/7 outside of my home-network.
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Mine is on pretty much all the time. Capchas are indeed annoying, but I'm choosing to see that as something which helps me to be more intentional about my use of the internet.
My bank and government portal don't seem to care about it, even if my traffic is coming from a random country on the other side of the world because I've forgotten to route through one of my VPN's domestic servers. Online freelancing platforms, on the other hand, have instantly banned my accounts, and I've had problems with corporate social media (which I try and use for my business).
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Permanently on. Anything I can't access without it I generally find an alternate with very few exceptions. I have a quarantine virtual machine I use for the couple of websites that are worth making an exception for.
Basically all the time.
Always, unless by mistake it is off.
I use tor for everything.
Everything??? Sounds slow
The internet is fast where I live, so there's no noticeable speed difference.
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
I don't use the browser, but I also don't use javascript, and you're right about that. 😂
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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
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All the time basically
maybe like 75 percent of the time. the Invidious APIs for Freetube.
My job requires secure outlook and access to our database. I do occasionally have to interface with banking sites.
Always. The captcha drive me crazy though.
always on
My VPN is on about 95% of the time, except when I need to pay a local utility bill (or check my bank account) where they need to know my location.
If you're paying them, why do they need to know your location to accept it? We're in a capitalist system. Money is money.
Most of the time, but I would emphasize always in airports or public wifi
Always on although my Phone VPN recently has failed to start up automatically or has shut down randomly lately and I got to get that fixed.
My reasons are just privacy. I'm not using it to get around regional restrictions. Additionally, it helps when I want to use a public Wi-Fi, especially if it doesn't have any passports on it.
I will not connect to public wifi without VPN.
Almost always. I turn off for certain websites that are blocked otherwise, but I hate to leave it off.
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.
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