[kortilla]

Is your threat model that you trust your ISP for your wireguard server more than the mobile ISPs? WiFi I completely understand but 4g providers seem to be on par if not better than cable companies in the us when it comes to molesting your traffic.

[graystevens]

Depends on the country I am in as to whether or not I want to VPN whilst on a mobile connection (whether that is for just having an IP in my home country or don’t fancy my traffic going over their wires).

It is primarily for public and/or untrusted WiFi connections, or so that I can take packet captures of iOS applications easily without a jailbreak or connecting the phone via USB to a Mac.

[move-on-by]

I also use the setting to automatically switch on when going to cellular. I use it because I have a PiHole for DNS ad blocking that I wish to continue to use when on cellular. Being on a VPN is the only way to do that on iOS.

[dunham]

I installed OpenVPN on my DO box after a hotel (Legoland CA) tried to MITM Dropbox, Reddit, and a few other sites. The app/browser caught this, but it rendered them unusable.

But in general, yeah I’d trust DO over Comcast or Verizon. I believe one of the US cell phone providers have been caught injecting tracking cookies into http headers in the past and selling customer information fits nicely into their business model.

I tend to only use it when I’m on sketchy WiFi networks though.

[heavyset_go]

This[1] was from 2014 regarding Verizon's mobile network.

[1] Verizon Injecting Perma-Cookies to Track Mobile Customers, Bypassing Privacy Controls: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/verizon-x-uidh

[0xADEADBEE]

That's pretty much my threat model. I tunnel everything over a Digital Ocean box, where I can assume that three letter agencies have access to my traffic but be reasonably confident that my ISP isn't building up a profile on me that it may be sharing with third parties in my country like insurance companies or credit agencies. I can also roll my IP every few weeks which might assist in messing up various tracking/profiling measures.

My initial concern was that it would slow down my browsing because my VPS is in another country but I haven't noticed much difference.