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So you're sending ALL your internet traffic through a VPN, that you know nothing about? Sounds like the craziest idea I've ever heard. Who owns the VPN? What a
by jonwinstanley 8y ago
So you're sending ALL your internet traffic through a VPN, that you know nothing about? Sounds like the craziest idea I've ever heard.
Who owns the VPN? What are they doing with your data?
- Spivak 8y ago"Using the Android VPN feature" != "Tunneling traffic through a remote network"
- jonwinstanley 8y agoOh - it's a private VPN? Sorry, that wasn't clear in the article
- dest 8y agoIsn't it a local VPN?
- r3bl 8y ago...no? You create a virtual "VPN" that filters out traffic based on hostnames. DNS requests that are not on the blacklist get forwarded to your DNS of choice. Other adblockers for non-rooted Android (like NetGuard) work in the same way.
- ddstvsucks 8y agoAlso limits your use of an actual VPN as well. Thanks Obama!
- citiguy 8y agoI have a pi-hole running on a Digital Ocean Droplet and have a secure vpn to that. Both run out of docker containers, so theoretically they could run anywhere. It works great and only costs me $5/month. No ads anymore either, and I figure DO probably doesn't care too much about my web traffic - though maybe I'm wrong on that. The only thing that is slightly annoying is that the iPhone seems to drop the VPN from time to time. If only there was a way to work that out....
- jjakque 8y ago> The only thing that is slightly annoying is that the iPhone seems to drop the VPN from time to time. If only there was a way to work that out.... I recall NordVPN on iOS used to do that and I took it as a norm. Perhaps a year ago after few iOS and apps, I noticed that not only the time takes for connecting dropped, the drop rate also decreased a lot. Not directly answer the question, but this made me think that there is a way...