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Jul 22, 2014 | 1:49 pm

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Please make sure you trust your VPN provider as all data transmitted can be logged/snooped. Even on a VPN the usual precautions about browsing safely applies.

The government is already in the loop on your data, who else do you want to add in?

Jul 22, 2014 | 1:59 pm

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Originally Posted by AnalogMan

Really? I never thought for one minute they would be interested in anything I had to say.

Jul 22, 2014 | 11:51 pm

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Originally Posted by ToGo

normaly it ilegal to manipulate the data beween the webserver and the client.

Uhh... what do you think a proxy server is?

Jul 23, 2014 | 4:10 am

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the proxy in train,... dont chance anything or compressed it!
Thats the difference to the what Vodafone do...

Jul 23, 2014 | 6:12 am

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Originally Posted by ToGo

the proxy in train,... dont chance anything or compressed it!
Thats the difference to the what Vodafone do...

What?

Jul 28, 2014 | 1:15 pm

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Vodafone manipulate the image!

Aug 6, 2014 | 6:43 am

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Originally Posted by javabytes

Extra data consumption caused purely by the fact that you're connected to a VPN is not substantial. What you're actually trying to do over that connection will be far more relevant to your level of data consumption, but that consumption would be the same whether you're connected to VPN or not.

Zero tech knowledge here, but I can verify that my data usage jumped >100% on my day to day data consumption needs when I started using a VPN (fairly recently). As an example, before the GFW started intermittently blocking google maps, I could navigate around Beijing and use ~3MB data (max). Now that I have to do it with VPN, exactly the same task uses nearly 10MB of data...

It's possible this is just a China thing, since I don't tend to use VPN when in other countries.

tb

Aug 6, 2014 | 8:18 am

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Originally Posted by trueblu

Now that I have to do it with VPN, exactly the same task uses nearly 10MB of data...

Oh my goodness, you're right! VPN=63mb, everything else=10mb.

But, I'm not planning on changing my ways because unfettered access to google = faster loading maps, and I like maps.

ETA: After posting it occurred to me that the reason the VPN number is so out of whack is because whenever I'm on VPN, my phone thinks that all data is used by the VPN itself (that's kind of the point, right?).

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Aug 7, 2014 | 5:47 am

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Originally Posted by moondog

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ETA: After posting it occurred to me that the reason the VPN number is so out of whack is because whenever I'm on VPN, my phone thinks that all data is used by the VPN itself (that's kind of the point, right?).

I don't think it's just that. My actual total data usage has shot up since using VPN...it may be because the VPN keeps connecting/disconnecting..but I don't know the actual reason.

tb