I’ve been using one but I’m not sure what benefits I’m getting from it. I feel like the only thing happening is I’m adding a little bit of latency to all my requests for no reason.

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    2 days ago

    Just for privacy reasons?
    I can decouple the traffic fingerprinting of some sites, like amazon, youtube, reddit, etc.
    And because I have a squid proxy router through the vpn set up via a couple of docker containers, I have a firefox container to always send the traffic over the proxy which allows me to easily search for stuff outside and inside the vpn.

    Aside from that I also use the proxy to send requests in scripts over the vpn so my real IP doesn’t get rate limited.
    And what VPNs are actually for: looking for geo-blocked content.