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Counter-Strike 2 players warned not to play CS2 as huge exploit could leak your IP
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this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2023
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Security, that's a major use of vpns.
Edit: I should of pointed out that I meant limited use for security reasons, like accessing your bank account in public areas, its not much but it can help to protect you from MitM attacks at the very least.
So what are you gaining using a VPN to access your bank? Your bank website is https so it's already encrypted. VPN's are vastly misrepresented in their commercials.
If you must know, I seed my public tracker torrents to a ratio of 10:1. That's why I have a router-level VPN config. Someone's gotta do it.
Okay but why not set up a separate/dedicated route for that traffic?
Not that I disapprove of what/how you’re doing, curious because it’s what I do. I’d assume you’ve got a VM or node other than your workstation hosting your torrent client, otherwise this method doesn’t make sense.
The VPN runs on my router and my torrent client runs on my server. Anyhow, why would I want only some of my traffic to go through VPN when I can send it all through?