It's not about speed. There are many websites where your identity is linked in some fashion (e.g Your bank). I don't want my bank to block my account because I was in one continent in the morning and another in afternoon. The same goes for other critical accounts. I know I know, this is all unlikely, but why bother with it if it can cause a lot of headache. e.g. I know of people whose facebook accounts got blocked and were asked to provide some id since the accounts were opened from two different geographies.
Basically sending all traffic via VPN seems a big headache to me.e.g. Using gmail from a VPN doesn't help me at all.
Firefox allows you to assign proxies to individual containers. You could create a "Mullvad" container, set it to use Mullvad's SOCKS proxy and then configure a list of websites to always open in that container. That should allow for nice segregation on the level of individual tabs.
They haven't documented this feature [1], but it's part of the official "Multi-Account Containers" extension. It can be found in MAC -> Manage Containers -> Select -> Advanced Proxy Settings at the bottom.
> I know of people whose facebook accounts got blocked and were asked to provide some id since the accounts were opened from two different geographies.
Ah, I see. Unrelated to VPNs, but if you want another anecdote: I had my FB account blocked because I physically moved to another country, and some months in I decided to recover the password to my account (which I hadn't used in a year or more).
Now, I 100% agree that this was a _super_ suspicious-looking series of events, but out of all possible ways to verify my account, how did FB choose to check my identity?
"Please login with a device that you had previously used to access this account. You must do so within 30 days or your account will be permanently disabled." Of course my old devices were in my old place in another country, and I wasn't going back within 30 days.
Fortunately I only used FB to join some IRL groups or to talk to the occasional person who had no other messenger, so it was no great loss, but I can imagine it would have been a major hassle for some people.
Basically sending all traffic via VPN seems a big headache to me.e.g. Using gmail from a VPN doesn't help me at all.