Pretty much always. If someone blocks my VPN, I just don't go there or don't use that. Sucks but it is what it is. I'm just not willing to enter your site bareback.

Mine is on pretty much all the time. Capchas are indeed annoying, but I'm choosing to see that as something which helps me to be more intentional about my use of the internet.

My bank and government portal don't seem to care about it, even if my traffic is coming from a random country on the other side of the world because I've forgotten to route through one of my VPN's domestic servers. Online freelancing platforms, on the other hand, have instantly banned my accounts, and I've had problems with corporate social media (which I try and use for my business).

always on

I use a VPN 99% of the time, i turn it off when i need to access archive.org, or watch something on the public braordcasters streaming platform

yeah sure the captchas are annoying but it's not like websites load within 10 seconds anymore

I only wish protonVPN was a good as the one i used previously, but i cancelled it cause it had ties to israel

Permanently on. Anything I can't access without it I generally find an alternate with very few exceptions. I have a quarantine virtual machine I use for the couple of websites that are worth making an exception for.

I have a VPN configured at the router. I use a PI-hole with a lot of restrictions and lists to run my own DNS and downstream DNS is Adgaurd. Several machines I let bypass the VPN umbrella and they have local clients they can switch on at will. I'd like to make a Linux firewall too but not with prices where they are now. These days you have to distrust everything.

Most of the time, but I would emphasize always in airports or public wifi

Always. The captcha drive me crazy though.

Phone > WireGuard Tunnel to my House = Reap the benefits of my PiHole and other hosted services > WireGuard Tunnel to ProtonVPN endpoint = Reap the benefits of appearing outside my country

Essentially created my own multi-hop VPN, which I use 24/7 outside of my home-network.

98% of the time. I hate having to turn it off to look at my local grocery store's website but I have done it before.

100% of the time I'm behind a vpn.

always except for banking, government stuff, job searching. that's when it looks more sus.

Basically all the time.

UK porn ban, always-on VPN

All the time basically

I use tor for everything.

Mostly just for torrents, one machine on my local network is always using a VPN to connect to the external internet. I would use it for more things like private web browsing, but without substantial additional setup I think my web browsing is guaranteed to be fingerprinted regardless of whether I conceal my IP so until I bother to set that up it doesn't seem like there is much point.

absolutely at all time. I can't say that I see many captchas. I think the last one was for some site I used a couple weeks back that used google recaptcha. it's pretty rare for me to see one.

Constantly.

Almost always. I turn off for certain websites that are blocked otherwise, but I hate to leave it off.

On at all times at the router level. Because it'd be annoying to selectively disable it. My VPN isn't really an anonymity feature anyway; I have a dedicated browser profile for things like banking where I intend the fingerprint to be associated with my government identity.

Alll the time with kill switch ON.

All the time, baby!

Unless it's absolutely necessary, vpn and kill switch stay on.

In a way always.

Whole family is connected to home network and home network has filters and blockers in the outgoing router.

Additionally home security system doesn't have to keep connections open outside or have ports forwarded.

Outgoing router however does not have VPN set, so home network IP is visible. This is to keep everything operational and CAPTHCA from annoying users.

My phone almost always has a Vpn on to my home network (gets me pi-hole goodness)

Other than that, very occasionally use the Firefox built in one + the one for my "Linux iso" torrenting container, that's not on most of the time though.

My VPN is on about 95% of the time, except when I need to pay a local utility bill (or check my bank account) where they need to know my location.

100% of the time.

My VPN turns on automatically when I leave my home lan. I don't use split-tunneling, so all my traffic goes back to home before going to internet.

Always. Wireguard is easy to setup and work like a charm.

Truenas + wireguard for pc, server and phone. Always everywhere.

General activity goes out the VPN always. My self hosted setup, lab stuff, and work stuff gets different connections out (logically, not physically).

Never, I'm in EU and I don't travel that much, pirating since 2000s

I leave mine on almost all the time. If a website takes a little longer to load "Oh no" its a half second instead of milliseconds. it really doesn't change my life much.

maybe like 75 percent of the time. the Invidious APIs for Freetube.

My job requires secure outlook and access to our database. I do occasionally have to interface with banking sites.

24/7 on any device except my home PC.

I would use VPN, but it makes my Bitcoin Node stop receiving incoming connections.