not exactly on point... other day I was running mullvad vpn in VMware_win10, set for isolation, ie, no crossover with Host, and I opened proton vpn on the Host, & mullvad on VM disconnected itself, alerted me, and then reconnected itself. also Edge is default running in the background unless you check and check again that it isn't, especially after an Edge update which comes along a few times a week. Not sure how closely chess.com monitors online games, but I understand from chess youtubers they monitor to determine if a user is running stockfish to "cheat" | not that you would