Introduction And Uses of Mobile VPN

Naqash Hameed
3 min readJan 1, 2023

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A mobile VPN is one that keeps you connected at all times, allowing you to switch between Internet connections without losing your place or crashing all of your apps. As a result, your music won’t stop streaming when you switch from Wi-Fi to mobile data or between Wi-Fi hotspots.

Benefits and advantages of using a VPN

There are many benefits to using a VPN. Your location, your digital activities, your need for security, and your reliance on unsecured public Wi-Fi connections all play a role in this. The main advantage of using a VPN is that you’re always better off having one than not.

Secure connections to public Wi-Fi

Every now and then, we must connect to an unprotected public Wi-Fi network. A VPN enables secure connection to a public Wi-Fi network, whether we’re using it while travelling, in a cafe, at our neighborhood library, or in another public area.

.Streaming regionally restricted content and websites

This issue is all too common among travelers. You pay for a website or streaming service in one location only to discover that it is blocked in another. There are several ways to access blocked websites and other online content.

Don’t censor yourself

Some nations place restrictions on how freely you can access information and browse the internet. Censorship can happen when connected to a company or school network, but it most frequently starts at the national level. By providing you with simple access to any content you want from anywhere in the world, a VPN solves the censorship issue.

Stop ISP monitoring

Your internet service provider, or ISP, monitors your online activity and may share this information without your knowledge or consent with advertisers, governmental entities, and other third parties. They do this for a variety of reasons, not all of which are evil, but it is still an invasion of privacy. Some nations require ISPs to store information about your online activities, whereas others, like the US, openly permit ISPs to sell that information to marketers and data brokers.

Remember that your ISP has access to your passwords, social media data, and physical location if that’s not enough of a reason to use a VPN to block tracking.

Avoid comparing prices unfairly

Price discrimination is the practice of charging different prices for goods or services based on your location, how you typically use and use the platform (are you a first-time visitor or customer or a repeat visitor or customer), and your preferences for online shopping (do you tend to shop at luxury stores). Although price discrimination has always existed offline, dynamic pricing is now also possible online thanks to automated algorithms.

A VPN can protect you from being ripped off, being singled out for a higher price based on your browsing and purchasing habits, or from IP address-based assumptions about your socioeconomic status.

Internet banking safety

To access accounts and sensitive banking information, many financial institutions, particularly in Europe, have switched to two-factor authentication. Unsecured networks make it simple for hackers to access your online banking activity, which is concerning because many banks still don’t. When it comes to the safest browsers for privacy and security, some connections are superior to others, but nothing matches the security of using your own VPN.

Security for online shopping

You give out your credit card number or other payment information each time you shop online. Along with personal information like your full name, date of birth, and address, this data is easily accessible to hackers and can result in identity theft. Your connection is secured by a VPN, enabling anonymous and secure online shopping.

Unblock social media

Is your home country considering banning your preferred social media site or secure messaging app? Sound familiar, TikTok users in the US? There are many nations that restrict or outright forbid the use of social media apps like Face book, Twitter, Integra, and WhatsApp, even though threats to outlaw TikTok in the US never came to pass. You can choose the country from which you access the internet with a virtual private network, giving you the same social media access as if you were physically there..

Be discreet when browsing

Last but not least, online privacy and anonymous browsing are among the most frequently cited benefits of using a VPN. There are many reasons to want to remain anonymous when browsing the internet, many of which are connected to the above-mentioned VPN advantages. Sometimes, until the consequences of over sharing hit you in the face, you aren’t even aware of why you want to remain anonymous online.

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