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Apple bows to Kremlin pressure to remove leading VPNs from Russian AppStore — Novaya Gazeta Europe (novayagazeta.eu)
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[–] kalleboo 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

To access a different LAN, e.g. a network at work, or your NAS at home. You configure it so your internet traffic still goes over your normal connection but only the LAN requests to the specific subnet goes over the VPN. This was the original use case they were built for (roadwarrior businessmen logging into their corporate portal from a hotel or whatever)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

This is the right answer.