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Thanks to Wireguard and basically 0% battery overhead on Android I always keep it activated. If you don't have a Wireguard endpoint just use Orbot to route it through Tor.

Did that several times using cheap eSIMs while traveling.

Never had a single problem with it (but increased latency because of weird routings around the world).

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8fingerlouie|5 months ago

Wireguard is amazing.

I have an "always on" VPN routing back home. Anything destined for my home network gets routed that way, and there's literally zero battery drain.

I'm not paranoid enough to route everything through VPN though.

lazycatjumping|5 months ago

For me it's not paranoia.. more like: I have a ton of unused GBit/s left.. so routing a few kBit... MBit/s of mobile data doesn't hurt.

riobard|5 months ago

> Never had a single problem with it (but increased latency because of weird routings around the world).

UDP (which WireGuard uses to encapsulate your data) traffic is often de-prioritized. You won't notice it when the network load is low, but it will seriously degrade experience during high load periods.

mimsee|5 months ago

Wouldn't deprioritizing interfere with regular web traffic these days, given that close to one third of non-bot traffic reported by Cloudflare is over UDP with HTTP/3[0]?

[0]: https://radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and-usage?dateRange=52...

lazycatjumping|5 months ago

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berdario|5 months ago

FYI, most of your comments show up as [dead]. I assume that the ones that didn't (like this one) have been vouched by others.

Not sure if dang see this, but it might be worth asking hn@ycombinator.com otherwise

lazycatjumping|5 months ago

Interesting. I didn't verify my mail address.

Maybe a flood protection for new accounts.

hippich|5 months ago

Recently I was looking for solution to have multiple VPN running at the same time, and without work profile I am limited to one. I want to run two (or more) and be able to tell which app uses no VPN, which routes through vpn1, which routes through vpn1, etc. so far it looks like I need multiple profiles, and that requires root, which Google actively discourages.

Maybe someone knows better alternatives?

lazycatjumping|5 months ago

I think "WG Tunnel" should be able to do that. You can add multiples profiles and link apps to it.