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, tries to watch capitalist propaganda while living in China, etc.pp 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
EDIT: From what I understand from the comments: switching the VPN has little to no impact on widely used tracking and if at all makes it easier to corelate data. People emphasize the general lack of full privacy if you are wanted by entities willing to spend enough resources. But for the general need of privacy in normal usecases it makes more sense to just leave the VPN running.
Hallo liebe Wiener, ich bin über Ostern in der Stadt und wollte mal fragen ob ihr Gedanken habt was man sich als alternativer Mensch hier anschauen könnte/sollte. Bin zum ersten mal hier, es gibt also keine falschen antworten ;)
Ob ein schöner Park, ne nette Kneipe, ein gutes punk Konzert dieses WE, ein sehenswertes museum oder sonst was, ich würde mich freuen von euch zu hören, was ich gesehen haben sollte bevor ich am Dienstag wieder fahre :)
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