rsbrux wrote:
Thanks, but I don't know what a "coffee shop" VPN is. I have Proton VPN installed, but it is turned off, also confirmed in iPad's Settings.
Remove the VPN. Verify.
About “coffee shop” VPNs generally: VPNs are unfortunately overhyped, and are too often problematic for privacy and network routing and performance.
Add-on VPNs badly solve a problem that hasn’t existed for a decade or so, but badly solve it in a way that is perfect for personally-identified data collection.
Some VPNs will further use your own ISP connection for traffic from other VPN users, as well.
Outside of geoshifting for website testing or CDN testing or such, I’d find a different access solution. And for geoshifting, I’d consider running an Algo VPN server you host, or some other analogous approach, because who knows what a particular VPN is doing. Various VPNs have claimed no logging too, but were later found to be logging when the “non-existent“ logs leaked on the net.
For privacy including such as concerns as around what your ISP might capture or what the network administrator of a local “coffee shop” connection might capture from your Wi-Fi connection, iCloud+ Private Relay with ODoH provides more than what a “coffee shop” VPN can even provide. And it’s built in.
In a manner of consideration, too many of the “coffee shop” VPNs are data-collecting malware.
