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’ll trust Mullvad over literally any ISP and/or Government. If I wasn’t willing to go even that far with trust, I’d buy half a dozen and chain them at semi-random halfhourly shifts of chains, filter over TOR between the last two and without a doubt whoever those 5 are, Mullvad would be my link to the shuffling chain from wherever I’m at.
Also, I don’t need a reason to not trust anyone to not trust anyone.