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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To ensure your unecrypted data(which is rare these days) is not clear-text in an untrusted network such as public wifi.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago

Yes but this isn’t the point I’m getting at — VPN doesn’t always mean you’re sending all your Internet traffic down the tunnel. You can choose to configure only specific networks to use the VPN tunnel.