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		Gander5739 42 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Ru... Aren't proxies good enough for that purpose?

oarsinsync 42 days ago [–]

The user experience differs for proxies.

System wide proxy configuration doesn’t actually always work system wide.

A VPN tends to have more success in encapsulating all application traffic (or all desired application traffic, if you’re so inclined to configure your system)

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