Do you really give 2 # if they know you hit while on their wifi? I mean really? Or are you hanging out at starbucks all day surfing p0rn? And sure while its technically possible for them to sniff dns in the clear. I do not use the VPN at home, and no, my work place does not have a VPN.Īnd you could do that with just doh or dot these days as well. If all I needed was a secure VPN to connect to when traveling, your solution would be more than adequate.ĭude I use PGP encryption to send emails, the VPN is only when I use a public WIFI. While your idea is attractive, I'd have to configure that setup in various providers worldwide costing more than my current annual subscription. Shockz, I use one (SurfShark) to get around geofencing allowing me to read the non-US versions of European, and Asian news sites. That being said, Starbucks has every WiFi user's MAC address to tie with their app and a list of what sites you visit when you're there, all in the name of marketing. Personally, I use a VPN in public to bypass public WiFi harvesting data for marketing, DNS snooping and QoS rules.Ħ years ago, my android phone could snoop on almost everything at a WiFi hotspot, today not so much. You think such an attack is going on at your local starbucks? Or they would have to be creating certs for stuff via a CA that you trust, so compromised a major CA keys to be able to do that - that is pretty heavy attack. For the local wifi to do a mitm attack on your device trying to to something via https, you would have to trust the cert they are using to create this cert on the fly to where your going. Almost nothing is sent in the clear these days. What service are you using for email, that emails would be sent in the clear, or your login would be in the clear? Do you honestly think the local wifi is doing a mitm on the secure connections used for authing and sending emails?Ī vpn use is to stop a local wifi from seeing traffic sent in the clear. How exactly are you using email to work that you feel you need to use a vpn? And if so why would it not be connecting to your work vpn? And you can force the VPN to enable always on wifi or lte even. It spits out a QR code that you scan to wireguard app and you're in. that's "free".ĭeploy ubuntu VM, open TCP/UDP port for wireguard. otherwise if you don't, why not just use your home connection with wireguard. Never said you were being sketchy, just that I understand why someone would want to use a service that has hosts out in Pakistan, China that do. I have no idea how to configure my own VPN and honestly don’t have time to sit down and figure it out so ExpressVPN works for me. It’s more about convenience than anything. I also like the fact that I can install this service on my iPad and iPhone. Not everyone that has a VPN is sketchy you know. I have to email sensitive stuff from time to time back and forth from work plus when I go out and stay somewhere, I use the public WIFI wherever I am at so a VPN is necessary. I also don't use it to bypass content restrictions or do sketchy things, so probably not an ideal solution for those that want to. Since I don't ever use my VPN outside of public wifi, I actually just use my home connection with wireguard when I'm on sketchy networks. Then again, if you're being sketchy, then I could see the argument for using these services that do it for you. Building your own with mostly full control over it. Unless you're consuming a crazy amount of bandwidth, it seems to me a more preferred method. Pi-VPN makes it even easier. It's like 14 bucks a month for compute/bandwidth costs if you run it 24/7, cheaper if you only use it as needed. It's cheaper to just spin up a base Linux VM in Azure (or other cloud provider) with your specified region and install Wireguard on it. I've never understood why people use these services. I never heard any reviews about it as a service. I had heard of PIA before, but the only reason I know that is because I kept thinking it stood for Pain In #. I've heard good things about ExpressVPN as well, although I've never used it. Now I just keep the GUI to take a quick look to see if I'm connected or not. It was a little bumpy at the beginning since they only do a command line interface for Linux, but I found a GUI option and was using that until it got to the point where I could remember the commands by heart. I've been using NordVPN for a couple of months now and I've not had an issue. just took a look at the site listed by the OP and they have a 'Best VPN' list and it looks like Express and Nord are the top 2 so that backs up my experience with them When I was using a VPN to bypass region restricts on Netflix and Pandora when I was in Colombia for work I used ExpressVPN. Never even heard of that VPN provider myself either.
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