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FYI, I used to use openVPN but eventually switched to Wireguard (via pivpn) for two reasons: - Wireguard is allegedly more efficient... I'm not 100% sure about

FYI, I used to use openVPN but eventually switched to Wireguard (via pivpn) for two reasons: - Wireguard is allegedly more efficient... I'm not 100% sure about that, but it does seem to connect faster, and my battery metrics report < 5% battery usage from WG, compared to ~8% for openVPN. YMMV ofc. - Wireguard can automatically connect to the VPN whenever you're not using a whitelisted Wi-Fi SSID. It's nice that my phone doesn't use VPN on my home wifi, but the minute I leave home, the VPN automatically updates. Not that you're doing anything wrong, but I just figured I'd shared because I put off the switch to WG for a long time and I've had a positive experience since. FWIW I really really wish I could run FF + ublock origin on my iphone.

hnews_account_1 4y ago
You should keep your VPN on at home too if it doesn’t leak your Wi-Fi connection information.
- dont__panic 4y ago
  > if it doesn’t leak your Wi-Fi connection information. I don't think I understand. I run my VPN at home on a raspberry pi. So all of my network traffic, at the end of the day, goes through my home ISP. I've considered shelling out for a VPN service to shield my traffic from ISP snooping, but at the end of the day you can only hide so much from your ISP, and I'm hesitant to introduce another failure point to my network (my SO will only take so much downtime!). I mostly use the VPN as a convenience to ad-block on all devices at the DNS level and access self-hosted services like my Jellyfin server even when I'm not at home. The security benefit is also nice when I'm away from home on any WiFi network other than my own -- you never know what's going on behind the scenes. Overall I don't worry too much about ISP snooping. But I probably should.
  - hnews_account_1 4y ago
    Were you using VPN in the original meaning of the term as a tunnel to a non local network? I was using it in the modern sense of what we used to call a proxy in the early 2000s. So services like NordVPN etc. I think you definitely need to not give your ISP any chance to snoop. I’m sure they can’t look into your packets but just knowing which sites you visit is crucial info. As is exposing your Wi-Fi info for apps on your phone which use it as a correlation data point. Obv since we’re on this forum, we both likely know how deep the privacy rabbit hole goes but in my experience, a good vpn service can do a ton of stuff together like dns filtering, traffic shielding from the isp, location shielding, ad blocking etc. Quite a one stop shop in a lot of cases.
scottydelta 4y ago
< FWIW I really really wish I could run FF + ublock origin on my iphone. I feel the same. I have one OpenVPN setup and one wireguard setup, both with Pi-hole in them. Since some OpenVPN don't work in some networks/countries(I am looking at you China!), it helps to have an alternative. I have a self-hosted bitwarden which is accessible only via my VPNs. So it's important to have a backup VPN to access my password manager and to block those pesky ads/trackers.

hnews_account_1 4y ago

You should keep your VPN on at home too if it doesn’t leak your Wi-Fi connection information.

dont__panic 4y ago
> if it doesn’t leak your Wi-Fi connection information. I don't think I understand. I run my VPN at home on a raspberry pi. So all of my network traffic, at the end of the day, goes through my home ISP. I've considered shelling out for a VPN service to shield my traffic from ISP snooping, but at the end of the day you can only hide so much from your ISP, and I'm hesitant to introduce another failure point to my network (my SO will only take so much downtime!). I mostly use the VPN as a convenience to ad-block on all devices at the DNS level and access self-hosted services like my Jellyfin server even when I'm not at home. The security benefit is also nice when I'm away from home on any WiFi network other than my own -- you never know what's going on behind the scenes. Overall I don't worry too much about ISP snooping. But I probably should.
- hnews_account_1 4y ago
  Were you using VPN in the original meaning of the term as a tunnel to a non local network? I was using it in the modern sense of what we used to call a proxy in the early 2000s. So services like NordVPN etc. I think you definitely need to not give your ISP any chance to snoop. I’m sure they can’t look into your packets but just knowing which sites you visit is crucial info. As is exposing your Wi-Fi info for apps on your phone which use it as a correlation data point. Obv since we’re on this forum, we both likely know how deep the privacy rabbit hole goes but in my experience, a good vpn service can do a ton of stuff together like dns filtering, traffic shielding from the isp, location shielding, ad blocking etc. Quite a one stop shop in a lot of cases.

scottydelta 4y ago

< FWIW I really really wish I could run FF + ublock origin on my iphone. I feel the same. I have one OpenVPN setup and one wireguard setup, both with Pi-hole in them. Since some OpenVPN don't work in some networks/countries(I am looking at you China!), it helps to have an alternative. I have a self-hosted bitwarden which is accessible only via my VPNs. So it's important to have a backup VPN to access my password manager and to block those pesky ads/trackers.