I’ve never completely understood this, but I think the answer would probably be “no,” although I’m not sure. Usually when I leave the house I turn off wifi and just use mobile data (this is a habit from my pre-VPN days), although I guess I should probably just keep it on since using strange Wi-Fi with a VPN is ok (unless someone at Starbucks is using the evil twin router trick . . . ?). I was generally under the impression that mobile data is harder to interfere with than Wi-Fi, but I could well be wrong and my notions out of date. So, if need be, please set me straight. 🙂

  • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
    21·
    6 months ago

    You’re hiding your traffic route from your mobile operator and giving it instead to your vpn company who swear they are honest

    • rudyharrelson@kbin.social
      19·
      6 months ago

      I run my own wireguard VPN at home and connect to it from my phone when I’m traveling.

      Grants me privacy (but not anonymity) from my mobile carrier. Sure, my home ISP still sees my VPN’s traffic, but that’s still one less company able to monitor my web traffic when I’m mobile.

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      1·
      6 months ago

      Well facebook VPN waa sniffing data to see what other Social media the person was using. But something like Proton that prides itself on privacy and encryption should be fine