SPN vs VPNs

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@mongrel306

I am not sure how changing connected VPN servers for each connection (actually, each website or origin?) like SPN does offers privacy and security advantages over a regular VPN.

It basically solves this problem: Basic 101 Networking question

What do you do when a banking website doesn’t load and you have many other tabs opened? Or reddit is blocking you because you use a VPN? If you disconnect, I learned that all other tabs will probably see your real IP.

The way I’m doing it right now, is leave the tab that doesn’t load for last. When only that one remains, I disconnect my VPN.

I could also use the solution by Jonah,

@jonah

Many VPN clients allow you to split tunnel and exclude apps from the VPN, so you could have Brave Browser going through a VPN and Firefox not going through a VPN (or, whatever), and then use each for different sites depending on need. Still compartmentalization though.

but I’d need to download a 4th browser and I don’t think I want to do that.

SPN seems like a great solution, but this

@whoami4

I gotta say I was using (paying) Safings SPN pretty much from the beginning and there was a lots of cases where it didn’t work well. Some sites just didn’t load, some blocked the connection and it was way too slow when waking up my computer sometimes requiring to restart the SPN. Also while I love the software there were almost no improvements over the years. I wanted to still use their firewall solution but it doesn’t work well with a VPN so quite recently I have “ditched” the solution altogether.

threw me off. Anyone else that uses it can share their experience?