DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android

Re:DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android by woodruffw on Friday May 03, 2024 @02:43PM (#40250870)

I’m a big fan of your service, but I agree with GP. I rode the subway yesterday and saw a Mullvad ad that strongly implied that a VPN is adequate protection against data brokers and data collection on websites.

It certainly wasn’t the most egregious VPN ad I’ve ever seen, but it was disappointing to see Mullvad imply privacy properties for VPNs knowing that ordinary people don’t understand cookies, sessions, fingerprinting, or JavaScript.

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Re:DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android by kfreds on Friday May 03, 2024 @06:18PM (#40253002)

Did the ad in fact talk about the VPN by itself, or in conjunction with the Mullvad Browser?

In any case we make the most important nuances clear on our landing page, and in other places on our website.

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Re:DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android by woodruffw on Friday May 03, 2024 @09:53PM (#40254189)

I believe it just said Mullvad, which I interpreted to be the VPN. It was on the NYC subway.

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