> if it doesn’t leak your Wi-Fi connection information.
I don't think I understand. I run my VPN at home on a raspberry pi. So all of my network traffic, at the end of the day, goes through my home ISP.
I've considered shelling out for a VPN service to shield my traffic from ISP snooping, but at the end of the day you can only hide so much from your ISP, and I'm hesitant to introduce another failure point to my network (my SO will only take so much downtime!).
I mostly use the VPN as a convenience to ad-block on all devices at the DNS level and access self-hosted services like my Jellyfin server even when I'm not at home. The security benefit is also nice when I'm away from home on any WiFi network other than my own -- you never know what's going on behind the scenes.
Overall I don't worry too much about ISP snooping. But I probably should.
Were you using VPN in the original meaning of the term as a tunnel to a non local network? I was using it in the modern sense of what we used to call a proxy in the early 2000s. So services like NordVPN etc.
I think you definitely need to not give your ISP any chance to snoop. I’m sure they can’t look into your packets but just knowing which sites you visit is crucial info. As is exposing your Wi-Fi info for apps on your phone which use it as a correlation data point.
Obv since we’re on this forum, we both likely know how deep the privacy rabbit hole goes but in my experience, a good vpn service can do a ton of stuff together like dns filtering, traffic shielding from the isp, location shielding, ad blocking etc. Quite a one stop shop in a lot of cases.
I don't think I understand. I run my VPN at home on a raspberry pi. So all of my network traffic, at the end of the day, goes through my home ISP.
I've considered shelling out for a VPN service to shield my traffic from ISP snooping, but at the end of the day you can only hide so much from your ISP, and I'm hesitant to introduce another failure point to my network (my SO will only take so much downtime!).
I mostly use the VPN as a convenience to ad-block on all devices at the DNS level and access self-hosted services like my Jellyfin server even when I'm not at home. The security benefit is also nice when I'm away from home on any WiFi network other than my own -- you never know what's going on behind the scenes.
Overall I don't worry too much about ISP snooping. But I probably should.