Hey guys n gurls, I was wondering if it is smart to disable my VPN connection for casual browsing.
Reasons: when having VPN constantly running it may be possible to track me via browser fingerprinting.
Szenario: the connection coming from the VPN which hypothetically downloaded a torrent has this screen ratio, this locale, this addons etc. And (more important) the YouTube login cookie we know belongs to this physical person/telephone number etc.
So I am wondering if I should only use the VPN when “needing” it (read articles not available in country, Netflix, read information government doesn’t like, things like that.) Or if I’m missing something here and I could obscure my causal day to day browsing as well without decreasing the security of the VPN.
For reference, the VPN doesn’t log anything (for more than a day) to my knowledge
I would just leave it running all the time as it does give a privacy boost by masking ur approximate location and not letting your ISP spy on you. If you are going to do things like torrenting or visiting websites the government won’t like, at LEAST use a different browser that is hardened (let’s say you use basic firefox for regular browsing, use Mullvad browser or something instead for that specific task), or just straight up use TOR if what you are trying to do won’t require that fast of internet speeds. If you are solely worried about the VPN IP address, you can just switch to a different server to a different country.