VPN for iphone
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The only time I use a VPN app is when I'm away from home and I connect to my VPN here, just for the sole purpose of being behind a Pihole. I use the OpenVPN app for that.
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non - I don't need to use a VPN except to remote into servers to do work.
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I'll ask the same question I asked in the GD thread, which nobody answered. Why do you need a VPN (especially on a phone)?
Save yourself some money, have a look at Tom's video.
Save yourself some money, have a look at Tom's video.
Excellent video. There's no security advantage to commercial VPNs, only some privacy in so far as who gets to see your data, you only swap your ISP/Wifi provider for your VPN provider. In most cases, better trust the ISP because they are UK-based and much better regulated and take security far more seriously. Some random VPN company registered in a random country is far less trustworthy.
Public WiFis? Just setup a VPN server on your home router and connect to it. If it doesn't support it, buy a Raspberry Pi and install a VPN server on it (more difficult, but lots of one-click scripts are there to use) and would still end up much cheaper than a VPN service.
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Paid-VPN services very much have their uses even for the common internet user.
- Can help work around poor routing or packet loss to your destination caused by congested links at your ISP towards the destination network.
Example
- Helps bypass content restrictions, sometimes traffic shaping or port speed restrictions and potential ISP-level QoS issues.
- A valid SSL for a website or App doesn't negate the use for a VPN on untrusted or open networks. There are plenty of sites that don't use HSTS.
There is still plenty of valuable data sent over unencrypted methods - one example of this are users who have failed to set-up email clients using secure SSL/TLS ports and fell back to unencrypted methods.
Not to mention SSL stripping is still very much possible in MITM attacks and the less "aware" of us might not notice the lack of httpS or SSL in the URL bar when that has occurred.
An unknowing user could also still click "visit this untrusted website" and just think it's an issue at the websites end rather than suspecting an MITM.
- In my own real world case recently, flights + hotels go up in price on certain price-checking websites when visiting from the same IP address and performing the same query - connect to a VPN and enjoy the lower pricing again.
- Can help work around poor routing or packet loss to your destination caused by congested links at your ISP towards the destination network.
Example
- Helps bypass content restrictions, sometimes traffic shaping or port speed restrictions and potential ISP-level QoS issues.
- A valid SSL for a website or App doesn't negate the use for a VPN on untrusted or open networks. There are plenty of sites that don't use HSTS.
There is still plenty of valuable data sent over unencrypted methods - one example of this are users who have failed to set-up email clients using secure SSL/TLS ports and fell back to unencrypted methods.
Not to mention SSL stripping is still very much possible in MITM attacks and the less "aware" of us might not notice the lack of httpS or SSL in the URL bar when that has occurred.
An unknowing user could also still click "visit this untrusted website" and just think it's an issue at the websites end rather than suspecting an MITM.
- In my own real world case recently, flights + hotels go up in price on certain price-checking websites when visiting from the same IP address and performing the same query - connect to a VPN and enjoy the lower pricing again.
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