Pretty much always. If someone blocks my VPN, I just don't go there or don't use that. Sucks but it is what it is. I'm just not willing to enter your site bareback.

Mine is on pretty much all the time. Capchas are indeed annoying, but I'm choosing to see that as something which helps me to be more intentional about my use of the internet.

My bank and government portal don't seem to care about it, even if my traffic is coming from a random country on the other side of the world because I've forgotten to route through one of my VPN's domestic servers. Online freelancing platforms, on the other hand, have instantly banned my accounts, and I've had problems with corporate social media (which I try and use for my business).

Phone > WireGuard Tunnel to my House = Reap the benefits of my PiHole and other hosted services > WireGuard Tunnel to ProtonVPN endpoint = Reap the benefits of appearing outside my country

Essentially created my own multi-hop VPN, which I use 24/7 outside of my home-network.

always on

Permanently on. Anything I can't access without it I generally find an alternate with very few exceptions. I have a quarantine virtual machine I use for the couple of websites that are worth making an exception for.

I use a VPN 99% of the time, i turn it off when i need to access archive.org, or watch something on the public braordcasters streaming platform

yeah sure the captchas are annoying but it's not like websites load within 10 seconds anymore

I only wish protonVPN was a good as the one i used previously, but i cancelled it cause it had ties to israel

I have a VPN configured at the router. I use a PI-hole with a lot of restrictions and lists to run my own DNS and downstream DNS is Adgaurd. Several machines I let bypass the VPN umbrella and they have local clients they can switch on at will. I'd like to make a Linux firewall too but not with prices where they are now. These days you have to distrust everything.

98% of the time. I hate having to turn it off to look at my local grocery store's website but I have done it before.

100% of the time I'm behind a vpn.

Always. The captcha drive me crazy though.

always except for banking, government stuff, job searching. that's when it looks more sus.

Most of the time, but I would emphasize always in airports or public wifi

Basically all the time.

All the time basically

UK porn ban, always-on VPN

I use tor for everything.

Almost always. I turn off for certain websites that are blocked otherwise, but I hate to leave it off.

Constantly.

On at all times at the router level. Because it'd be annoying to selectively disable it. My VPN isn't really an anonymity feature anyway; I have a dedicated browser profile for things like banking where I intend the fingerprint to be associated with my government identity.

My phone almost always has a Vpn on to my home network (gets me pi-hole goodness)

Other than that, very occasionally use the Firefox built in one + the one for my "Linux iso" torrenting container, that's not on most of the time though.

Mostly just for torrents, one machine on my local network is always using a VPN to connect to the external internet. I would use it for more things like private web browsing, but without substantial additional setup I think my web browsing is guaranteed to be fingerprinted regardless of whether I conceal my IP so until I bother to set that up it doesn't seem like there is much point.

absolutely at all time. I can't say that I see many captchas. I think the last one was for some site I used a couple weeks back that used google recaptcha. it's pretty rare for me to see one.

My VPN is on about 95% of the time, except when I need to pay a local utility bill (or check my bank account) where they need to know my location.

Alll the time with kill switch ON.

All the time, baby!

Unless it's absolutely necessary, vpn and kill switch stay on.

In a way always.

Whole family is connected to home network and home network has filters and blockers in the outgoing router.

Additionally home security system doesn't have to keep connections open outside or have ports forwarded.

Outgoing router however does not have VPN set, so home network IP is visible. This is to keep everything operational and CAPTHCA from annoying users.

maybe like 75 percent of the time. the Invidious APIs for Freetube.

My job requires secure outlook and access to our database. I do occasionally have to interface with banking sites.

100% of the time.

My VPN turns on automatically when I leave my home lan. I don't use split-tunneling, so all my traffic goes back to home before going to internet.

General activity goes out the VPN always. My self hosted setup, lab stuff, and work stuff gets different connections out (logically, not physically).

Always. Wireguard is easy to setup and work like a charm.

Truenas + wireguard for pc, server and phone. Always everywhere.

I would use VPN, but it makes my Bitcoin Node stop receiving incoming connections.

Always.

24/7 on any device except my home PC.

Always, unless by mistake it is off.

Allways use your vpn and just spit tunnel things that don't work with them eg freetube. If you're getting captchas lots you could look into getting a residential socks5 proxy, I use mullvad's socks5 they wont be as good as a residential one though.

Never, I'm in EU and I don't travel that much, pirating since 2000s

I never have. Don't know how to do it (I know it's not hard). The only use I occasionally have is blocked media, but I just don't watch whatever it is. It's not that important to me.

What's important to me is blocking ads, which I do as much as possible. The way I see it, the main point of them tracking me is to serve me ads, so I break the chain at the ads.

If I want privacy, I use Tor. Everything else seems like spitting into the wind.

if you include my intranet vpn daily, if you include external vpns generally only if I'm going to a hotel or a location I expect would be insecure.

mostly against geoblocking when I want to watch public TV channels from while I'm not in the "right" country, e.g. when I want to watch PBS outside of the US, Arte outside of Europe (even though I dont think they block anymore), FranceTV outside of France, Ray out of Italy, etc.

Sometimes also for blocked content, e.g. PirateBay in France or AnnaArchive in Belgium but typically for these public proxies are enough.

Ah I also use self-hosted VPN for my own self-hosted services when I'm on the move but it is typically very small traffic.

FWIW I'm not using a large commercial ISP, so trusting my ISP is a big part of my behavior.

Always on although my Phone VPN recently has failed to start up automatically or has shut down randomly lately and I got to get that fixed.

My reasons are just privacy. I'm not using it to get around regional restrictions. Additionally, it helps when I want to use a public Wi-Fi, especially if it doesn't have any passports on it.

I will not connect to public wifi without VPN.