Bit of an uphill fight with captchas everywhere. Do people here conduct all online activity over VPN whenever possible? Only for the sensitive stuff? Or perhaps the inverse because the bank already knows you? Maybe when travelling or getting around region blocking? Something else?
The one provided by my work aside, I realized that I don’t have any consistent rules around using VPN. Except sometimes, you know, when downloading ISO’s for my favorite distos.
Pretty much always. If someone blocks my VPN, I just don’t go there or don’t use that. Sucks but it is what it is. I’m just not willing to enter your site bareback.
Allways use your vpn and just spit tunnel things that don’t work with them eg freetube. If you’re getting captchas lots you could look into getting a residential socks5 proxy, I use mullvad’s socks5 they wont be as good as a residential one though.
UK porn ban, always-on VPN
All the time, baby!
Unless it’s absolutely necessary, vpn and kill switch stay on.
Always. Wireguard is easy to setup and work like a charm.
Truenas + wireguard for pc, server and phone. Always everywhere.
100% of the time.
My VPN turns on automatically when I leave my home lan. I don’t use split-tunneling, so all my traffic goes back to home before going to internet.
Phone > WireGuard Tunnel to my House = Reap the benefits of my PiHole and other hosted services > WireGuard Tunnel to ProtonVPN endpoint = Reap the benefits of appearing outside my country
Essentially created my own multi-hop VPN, which I use 24/7 outside of my home-network.
May I ask how you have that setup? I’ve been trying to do exactly that using my Ubiquiti gear in the middle, but I don’t think I Ubiquiti’s UnifFi is capable.
Picked myself up an Asus WRT router (AX86U) flashed it with Merlin firmware - the custom firmware includes a feature called “VPN Director” which lets me connect up to 5 different WireGuard clients and route my devices through whichever one I choose, given that the Asus WRT router is also capable of hosting its own WireGuard server I created a VPN director rule that routes that server through one of these clients.
The VPN director has a priority ruleset, so if for example WireGuard client 5 dies it will either kill all outbound connections and wait until it’s back online or fallback to WireGuard client 4, WireGuard client 1 being the highest priority right before WAN.
I like this setup because it’s my router doing the routing, not a secondary server hosting WireGuard like Tailscale.
Edit; It also works with oVPN if you prefer that protocol over WireGuard.
Must look into Merlin, I want to stay away from closed source or US companies so Unifi was out.
Could you have a residential static VPN as one of the wireguard profiles and have it be somewhat local to you so you could use banking apps etc on specific devices? Trying to get this to pass the wife test but if streaming or banking is affected I will have to roll back to no vpn.
Could you have a residential static VPN as one of the wireguard profiles and have it be somewhat local to you so you could use banking apps etc on specific devices? Trying to get this to pass the wife test but if streaming or banking is affected I will have to roll back to no vpn.
Absolutely, my setup I have a catchall rule that captures the entire 10.6.0.0/24 range however I can specify the IP’s individually so if I want to put a remote device behind my WAN and not through another WireGuard tunnel I can do that.
You can kind of see that in my second screenshot in my previous comment, I have a couple devices individually behind WGC4 and my catchall rule sitting on WCG5, the router will prioritize WCG4 over WGC5.
Edit: the Asus router also comes with a built in DDNS feature, you can either use Asus’s free domains and associate your dynamic IP with them or setup your own domain, it’ll keep your A records up to date whenever your IP changes.
For example I use this script to update my Cloudflare record for my domain - https://github.com/clayauld/asus-merlin-cloudflare-ddns
I should probably try what the O.P. did as I also have an ASUS router with Merlin. However, in my case, I have a Synology NAS and I set up VPN on that and use that server as my VPN. I have a certificate-based sign-in through a single port on the router.
I use a Public VPN service when I’m out and about and then connect to my VPN when I need to do stuff on my network, Like syncing my Joplin notes.
Mine is on pretty much all the time. Capchas are indeed annoying, but I’m choosing to see that as something which helps me to be more intentional about my use of the internet.
My bank and government portal don’t seem to care about it, even if my traffic is coming from a random country on the other side of the world because I’ve forgotten to route through one of my VPN’s domestic servers. Online freelancing platforms, on the other hand, have instantly banned my accounts, and I’ve had problems with corporate social media (which I try and use for my business).
On at all times at the router level. Because it’d be annoying to selectively disable it. My VPN isn’t really an anonymity feature anyway; I have a dedicated browser profile for things like banking where I intend the fingerprint to be associated with my government identity.
Permanently on. Anything I can’t access without it I generally find an alternate with very few exceptions. I have a quarantine virtual machine I use for the couple of websites that are worth making an exception for.
Always.
I use a VPN 99% of the time, i turn it off when i need to access archive.org, or watch something on the public braordcasters streaming platform
yeah sure the captchas are annoying but it’s not like websites load within 10 seconds anymore
I only wish protonVPN was a good as the one i used previously, but i cancelled it cause it had ties to israel
You might want to check into split tunneling.
always on
Alll the time with kill switch ON.
