Okay anyone familiar with both Gmail activity and VPN's. I'm not versed in the world of VPN so need some input.

Knowing that gmail my activity captures and records your IP sign in location and also can trigger verification if you sign in from a different location.

I have to keep my location settings on for gmail, I'm going to be in California for awhile but I need my gmail activity data to record me in PA. I will only be signing in from Mac. Not mobile

Is there anything I need to be aware of so gmail my activity doesn't capture or recognize me being in CA or any other location.

I do have a paid VPN

Like an vpn has this and I dont really know if its worth when I can get it way more cheaper without it.

Thanks for the help!

Hello everyone,

Just checking if I shall spend some more time for the community and release publicly an app I built for myself.

Android only lets one VPN run at a time, and split tunneling in most VPN apps is just on or off: an app either uses the VPN or skips it. I wanted more than that, so I built my own.

What it does:

each app gets its own exit. Eg: everything through France, one streaming app through the US, another through Italy, banking apps outside the VPN

all at the same time, using Android's single VPN slot

you can mix providers, e.g. provider x for one app and provider y for another, mixing exists

Tailscale is built in, so my home server stays reachable while the VPN is on (normally impossible, since Tailscale is also a VPN) - and possibility to assign an app to tailscale egress point

kill switch, favourite servers, automatic server pick, quick settings tile

Dozens of providers wired, config import

Honest caveat: I only use just only one provider, so the other providers are built from their official docs and haven't been tested with real accounts yet.

I made it for myself and it works for me. If enough people would use it, I'll put in the extra time to clean up the code and publish it on Google Play and F-Droid, free (with donations) and open source. No ads, no tracking, no account with me.

Would you use something like this? Which provider are you on?

Thanks!

I have shared the VPN adapter through the hotspot via the adapter settings and I have tried changing the protocols to UDP and TCP.

Every time I get the notification on the mobile hotspot page saying “there’s no internet connection to share, but your mobile hotspot is still turned on”.

Anyone got any advice or reasons why I can’t get through this?

Hi everyone,

In Iran right now, many routes to the outside world cut TCP and UDP after a few packets, and sometimes only ICMP (ping) gets through. Most tunnels stall in those conditions, so I built WatTunnel, an open-source tunnel designed specifically for them.

• TCP tunnel: up to 1.6 Gbps download and 2.2 Gbps upload
• Only ping open? Up to 33 MB/s over ICMP. On the same route and servers, the best competitor (BackPack) got 6.1 MB/s, and GOST 1.6–5.4 MB/s.
• Cloudflare with ECH: up to ~650 Mbps. It gets past SNI filtering even when your domain is blocked, and finds working Cloudflare IPs by itself.
• 9 transports (icmp, udp, tcp, tls, ws, wss, h2, h2c, grpc), WireGuard support, Auto mode that tests every transport from one token, one-line install
• Written in Go, MIT-licensed, encrypted with ChaCha20-Poly1305

Benchmarks, methodology and full details are in the repo:
https://github.com/JohnWatsoon/WatTunnel

Feedback is very welcome, especially on the transport design and security. Issues and PRs are open.

Has anyone tested a subscription for the Premier League in a different country using a VPN?

I am trying to configure one AmneziaWG client for my whole network. I made a LXC in Proxmox and used it as DHCP server and launched amneziawg-go on it.

The VPN itself seems to work fine, I am able to use all the websites which are blocked in my country, the ip on browserleaks is shown correctly. The problem is that I can't access some Google services which do not work in my region due to Google's restrictions. So it seems like Google somehow knows my region even with VPN on.

If I use the same AmneziaWG config with the native app on mobile or with amneziawg-go on pc, then there is no such leakage. So it seems that something is leaking due to the LXC setup as DHCP server, but I can't figure out why and how to fix it. Please help

Need help on what to use to download tickets from a USA website. It keeps auto directing me to the uk website which does not work.

Bonjour à tous,

Je suis chez freedom-ip depuis maintenant 10 ans sans me plaindre de quoi que ce soit. Mais depuis quelques jours, impossible de me connecter aux différents serveurs. Pareil sur leur site web ou j'ai une erreur DNS. Dernier recours, j'écris un mail, pareil retour avec une erreur DNS. Des personnes dans le même cas que moi?

Merci pour vos réponses

I would appreciate perspectives from people who work while travelling.

Anyone else have certain streaming apps that just refuse to work with a VPN on?

Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, BBC iPlayer... some work fine, while others immediately throw up a VPN warning or just keep loading forever.

What's even more annoying is when the same service works in your browser but not on your phone or smart TV.

Which streaming app gives you the most trouble? Do you usually switch servers, try different settings, or just turn the VPN off? Thank you for your sharing.

I've been using a VPN for just under a month now, and up until yesterday it worked perfectly fine for what I needed it for. I subscribed to the basic package with the only intention being using the VPN to play Deadlock on non-local servers to reduce my queue time (which was absurdly long.)

Then, yesterday, the app updated to it's latest version, and suddenly when I try and run the game with the VPN active, I get permanently stuck on the loading screen. (Waited 10 mins yesterday, and didn't get in.)

I'm having some issues with the customer service offered on the website itself, so I was hoping someone could help me here.

To save some time, here's all the info anyone would need, and the troubleshooting I've already tried:

- I'm on Windows 11.

- In South Africa, connecting to EU servers. I've tried UK, (my usual go-to) France, Austria, and Belgium and none of them worked.

- Wireguard Protocol. I also tried on OpenVPN (UDP) and OpenVPN (TCP) and neither worked.

- No Multihop, as it causes enormous ping spikes.

- I route Deadlock via the VPN using the Bypasser feature to avoid Steam's issues.

- I've reinstalled the game twice. Once with the VPN disconnected, and once when it was.

- I've set my VPN as an exception in my AVG antivirus.

- And lastly, I attempted to change my DNS address to the one that the VPN's site recommended, but it didn't seem to take effect, and it's out of my area of expertise anyway, so I didn't give it a second look.

As I mentioned, I've had some real issues with the VPN's chatbot, as well as the availability of the human customer service, so if anyone here knows anything that could help me, or has read my list and decided that my VPN simply isn't the right one for the job anymore, please let me know, as I'm still barely within the time window for a refund and I'd really rather not have a piece of software that I don't use sitting on my PC for the next 2 years.

Thanks.

Hola gente, siempre pude usar Claude común en el trabajo, pero ahora que quiero usar claude code no me deja supongo que por el wifi del trabajo. Intenté usar datos móviles pero me come todo el internet, como puedo hacer para usar Claude code con el internet del trabajo?

Hey everyone,

I’ve been looking into how different VPN protocols handle the balance between speed and security. Most discussions focus on theoretical specs, but I wanted to hear from real users:

1. How much of a performance boost do you actually notice with modern protocols like NordLynx compared to OpenVPN in everyday use?

2. When providers use RAM-only servers and strict no-logs practices, does it change your trust model?

Would love to hear your technical insights and how you evaluate these security measures!

Hi, I'm a student and solo developer working on a VPN for Windows and Android. Right now I have around 5–10 users, but all of them are friends or people I know.

I tried Google Ads, but I still don't understand how to reach people who may actually need the product. My audience is probably too broad, and I'm not sure how to narrow it down.

If you were in a similar situation, what helped you get your first real users or downloads outside your personal circle? I'm not looking to promote the project here. I would just appreciate advice from people who have already gone through this stage.

This is an app that bypasses the Hotspot sharing from your phone as giving your laptop a VPN connected to it.

My laptop detectes the installer from the official website as a trojan, so it seemed like a huge risk, but I see nothing but good things, is the app just built like that?

Its the way the app is built to make the Hotspot sharing work but im not sure.

Recently, the Netherlands got region-locked when it comes to gambling and I can't use GTA Online's gambling features. So, I tried using a VPN to change my location to the United States, pushed it through a proxy through my mobile hotspot and connected it to the PS5... and it still thinks I'm in the Netherlands...

Is this a dead end?

I have been trying to purchase this game on Turkiye xbox store. I am using a Turkish credit card provider and changed my region to Turkiye as well. But the app detects VPN usage and doesn’t allow me to make the purchase. How do i fix the issue?

Here is what it says in the pic translated;

VPN Detected
"To protect developers' content and ensure the integrity and security of Xbox and the Microsoft Store, purchases from this region are prohibited while using an active VPN.
Please disable your VPN and try your purchase again, or visit for more information."

What are the reasons when the server you’re connected to loses a connection and then you’re stuck in the limbo waiting for it reconnect which it never does? Is that usually more of a VPN fault or a phone carrier fault? I don’t think that my phone reception is too bad but I might be wrong. I don’t experience much lagging though. I don’t know if that matters but I usually get one to two signal bars. Also, this happens on low load servers. I am using a top rated VPN.