Advice Request Should you always use a VPN on public Wifi ?

[Lorthemar]

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Ah, will definitely check it out. Thanks

 

[blacksheep]

Nowadays most of WiFI spots block VPN.

 

[Cortex]

If you use Windscribe in Robert social can be blocked easily.

 

[computer man]

I'd reccomend always using a VPN when on public WiFi which is well known in the computer security world to commonly be insecure, in spite of the feel good psudo-security they usually set up on it.

 

[ForgottenSeer 85179]

People forget what public means.

Also most (important sites anyway) use https these days and that prevent against manipulation or sniffing.
Important sites even use pinning which make a modification impossible.

Anyway I would never do sensible stuff on a public network.
For rest using a encrypted DNS service is enough and Android can do that natively.

So why should anyone use a VPN for that which get the data and more? Can't get that in my head.
*Discussion start*

 

[ForgottenSeer 55474]

I use VPN(Ekspress) almost all the time, but sometimes when I have to download something fast, I don't.