Worrying VPN notice

Ratty

I recently saw a VPN notice that said something like this: "network activity including emails and browsing activity is visible to IT admins." Is it talking about the VPN seeing or some other third party? Obviously I can encrypt my traffic with https but would that mean that my protonmail contents are visible?

de0u

Ratty Can you provide the exact message?

final

Ratty "network activity including emails and browsing activity is visible to IT admins."

This message is a default notice from Android and is related to the context of VPNs used in enterprise networks, where a business may require you to use VPN to access their internal network. In the case of a VPN that logs data or is an enterprise one like this, yes, they could see activity.

For commercial VPN services this is irrelevant, unless they actually can see that data, of course.

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de0u scroll the notification shade all the way down and tap on the text next to the key (when your vpn is active). There, you see your message.