I’ve been using one but I’m not sure what benefits I’m getting from it. I feel like the only thing happening is I’m adding a little bit of latency to all my requests for no reason.
I’ve been using one but I’m not sure what benefits I’m getting from it. I feel like the only thing happening is I’m adding a little bit of latency to all my requests for no reason.
In the cons there’s also an increase of the attack surface since you’ll be using a program to run the VPN
On the pros, some offer DNS blocking
WireGuard is now even part of the Linux kernel. The protocol and the reference implementation are fully open source, you can just download a WG profile from your provider and you won’t even have to use their application.
You can also set that up without a VPN, or independently of your VPN. The standard WireGuard client doesn’t interfere with your DNS setup.
Wireguard and openvpn both have open source clients.
That may make it more secure than other clients, but the surface is still larger. Any time you add an executable