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I would just stick with PIA on the phone and a good ad-blocker, especially if you don't really need to connect back to your home network. Phone > OpenVPN > Pi-Hole > PIA > Internet. The PIA instance would be on your router (if capable) or on a separate server within the network (a VM perhaps). There after, PiHole could go through PIA. The OpenVPN server should then resolve to PiHole inside your network.

OpenVPN will allow your phone to VPN into your home network remotely. Now admittedly I could be completely wrong here and off base, so corrections from the community are encouraged. If your desire is to leverage PIA and PiHole remotely (or within your network), I would think that you may need to leverage two VPNs. There is a potential issue with DNS leak when using PIA, but resolving to another DNS server outside of PIA.

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Their software development kinda sucks and each release seems more buggy than the last. I chose Nord, although I'm not overly impressed. I actually miss the clean interface, relatively high speeds, and reliability of the PIA service.

Unless and until it's proven safe, I wouldn't suggest PIA for anything beyond the 'I just want to deny my ISP some knowledge of my browsing activity' level of security rather than a truly 'no logs' VPN provider. I'm not aware of any recent developments in terms of either court cases or independent audits to prove PIA is truly not collecting data from users. I do know that I and several of my compatriots were concerned enough to stop using PIA, even though we still had time left on our subscriptions. I'm also just a random user on Reddit and any information I have provided should be verified/researched. I'm operating on the 'cheetahs and malicious software developers don't change their spots' mentality. Honestly, I don't have any 'new' information on PIA/Kape. Without a VPN, they could also see the domain, because it's sent in plaintext by HTTPS under some conditions. The wifi network will see metadata, like when you connected, that you connected to your home network, etc. The data can't be grabbed, it's encrypted by the VPN (and, ideally, by the application layer too, like HTTPS) Since it can be grabbed outside my home network, right? Either you use your own VPN which doesn't make you anonymous at all, else you connect to a VPN used by other people, at which point both the wifi and the website can know you're using an IP used by VPNs and the VPN can identify you. Whoever told you a VPN is to be anonymous is a scammer. The goal of a VPN is to connect to a seperate network, in your case your home. (In France, some argue that advertising means the user is usikg the VPN as provided, and not responsible. Public VPNs are advertising this use, but it isn't legal. Note that using a VPN with the purpose of looking like you're coming from somewhere you aren't is a rather dark grey area. That can be really useful to access content geolock'd to your own country when you're away.

In particular, no legal bank would operate unsafely. Modern web is designed to be accessed from wireless networks outside your home. 99% of your internet use is over https and VPNs 'for safety' are overated by scammy marketting campaigns.

It also protects me in unsafe wifi hotspots. PiVPN, as I understand it, let's me connect my phone from anywhere to my network and use pi-hole.Ĭorrect.

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