I had to use VPN to connect to my department’s server to download projects that need to be updated. We’ve been having so many issues with the VPN, we’re in the process of switching to Dropbox. Once that settles in, goodbye VPN!
(stupid VPN wouldn’t let me listen to Spotify either)
I was thinking about delivery services like Door Dash. They require permissions to query the phone’s GPS location.
It’s accurate regardless of what Network server you’re connected too.
Amazon probably doesn’t care where someone is at. Packages get delivered to the primary address. Amazon might trigger a security alert if someone switched servers throughout a day.
I came to VPN reluctantly. I want privacy and VPN servers offer additional malware protection that hides on web pages. I don’t open a page and get hijacked to three spam pages. Sometimes the back arrow doesn’t work and the Tab has to be closed. VPN helps to stop that garbage.
Occasionally, when I feel I’m on a sketchy wifi connection or I’m doing a shopping search in an incognito window where I want to change my area, or I don’t want like items to show up in future web shopping excursions. But most of the time no.
I use VPN as much as possible at home. I don’t like the idea of ISP monetizing by browsing habits. It’s mostly streaming services that fail to work with VPN. Youtube doesn’t seem to care. And I think I see more “prove you are human” pages than I would otherwise. I don’t use it frequently on my phone, though I should. It drains the battery a bit too fast.
Only occasionally, to access certain work (university) resources from home. Even then, most of what I need is accessible through a portal, OneDrive, or Google Drive, there’s only some backend programs I need the VPN for.
Every day i work from home i need to use a VPN to connect to my employer’s system. I used one on my personal computer for a while, but that was for shady purposes. I don’t think I’ve used one for my own protection.
Like others, I need a VPN connection to use certain technical resources related to my job.
Privately, as I am an American living overseas, I occasionally need a VPN service to use a couple of financial and government portals which are otherwise blocked for people outside the US. The sites which cater to expats are sensibly accessible, but we’ve run into at least two web apps which annoyingly assume users must be Stateside and all others are invalid, so a VPN is required.
Otherwise, no. We know other expats who use VPN to camouflage their access to American streaming sites and for other similar low-grade fraudulent purposes, but we don’t do that. Except as noted above, we have fully “gone native” in terms of our media consumption and such.
Ditto. I did have to use one when I was doing consulting work for a bank. Today I’m mercifully retired and no longer have any use for James Bond stealth and gadgetry.
My phone automatically uses a VPN all of the time, unless I’m connected to my home Wi-Fi, or Wi-Fi at other trusted locations.
Ever since it was made public quite a few years back that AT&T was using supercookies to track their customers I’ve been using a VPN anytime I use mobile data. All of the other mobile phone companies in the US were doing the same thing, so switching companies would not matter.
Almost all websites use SSL/TLS now, which greatly limits tracking by the network provider, but at this point I have to consider the mobile phone companies as an adversary, and I provide them the minimal amount of information possible.
I also occasionally use a work VPN, for all of the reasons other people use one.
I use a VPN constantly. I have one for personal use which I feel is really just a proxy server rather than a VPN, but everyone calls it a VPN nowadays. I also use a true VPN for work.
The work VPN only functions from my employer-issued laptop.
For the personal VPN, I have plugins on my computer web browsers, and the VPN app on my phones. I also have a dedicated VPN wireless router. This works great for things like TVs and ROKU devices for which there is no app available.
YouTube doesn’t care.
Amazon doesn’t care about switching servers often. I have Amazon Prime accounts for .com and .de, and it doesn’t matter what IP I use to log into either of them.
Used to all the time when I was working from home.
Now I’m retired, hardly ever. There might possibly be a use for one to get round location-based restrictions, bur I’ve hardly ever run into that issue.
My solution: I don’t use mobile data at all. Not only am I not providing the carrier with unnecessary information (not that I would really much care) but I’m also not providing them with unnecessary payments.
