I always wondered this and should have asked way sooner about this, but here goes: when do app connect to the internet? Is there traffic going in and out at all times? Let’s take a specific example. If my steam app is opened and I switch from a vpn connection to the other, does steam sees this? Sa…

Off the top of my head there’s really no good ways to do it securely without compartmentalization, but there are more convenient methods than the ones I gave as an example. Many VPN clients allow you to split tunnel and exclude apps from the VPN, so you could have Brave Browser going through a VPN …

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jonah (Jonah Aragon) November 13, 2024, 3:21am 5

Loaded pages could be running some JavaScript that makes background connections.

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Keep getting shadow banned on Reddit with every account I create because I use VPN. Any solutions to this?

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