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Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish · 11 months ago

Android Work Profiles DO NOT Use The Same VPN As Normal Profile

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Android Work Profiles DO NOT Use The Same VPN As Normal Profile

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Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish · 11 months ago

I was not aware of this until today. People use work profiles on Android to isolate their more privacy invasive apps. If you want those apps to be tunnelled through a VPN, you would have to install the VPN application you use on your work profile separately and turn it on separately in your work profile.

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Actually, the intended use of work profile is for… Work. You don’t want the corporate VPN to be The phone-wide VPN - do you?

The design is logical. Since we are all misusing it, I think it would be useful to be able to toggle a “share VPN” switch.

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