Unless you’re sharing a connection with multiple untrusted devices on a network. Say you forgot passwordless file sharing is enabled and the VPN app is no longer disabling network discoverability to protect you. HTTPS protects against snooping but situationally the VPN app can do more than encrypt traffic. But we can’t assume every VPN app has this feature either.
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