I’ve always had it on, but it’s kind of a pain in the ass. Especially on worse (not necessarily slower) networks.
On laptop it’s fine for the most part since the use-case is a bit different, but on a phone it’s causing me some annoyances/issues.
With my carrier indoors it takes on average 62 seconds to connect. This is pretty annoying if toggling/switching VPN servers more often.
But when travelling (e.g.: in a train) it can make the difference from slightly spotty signal to almost never being connected successfully, impacting usability.
As such, I often find myself not even using VPN in such cases in the first place.
For comparison, plain Wireguard is done before I can pull away my finger from the “connect” button, usually even on 2G EDGE.
Do you keep this (perhaps a bit paranoid-level) option on?
Even if actually useful in the future, it would only protect traffic recorded from User to VPN anyway.
I notice the same effects as well. On desktop I keep it on because it doesn’t take any longer and provides extra secutity, so why not. But on my phone over lte it doesn’t work at all, so I keep it off.
There are only a handfull of quantum computers that could actually brute force a good vpn, and I highly doubt any of them would waste time/resources on spying on me playing steam games or browsing lemmy. In my opinion it’s more of a future-proofing feature, and is less important to have on, in 2025 at least.