During downtime I didn’t really care about surfing on reddit, but it does feel a bit weirder to surf into some “random” Lemmy instance like lemmy.dbzer0.com on my work computer for some reason. Do you surf the fediverse at work?

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    3 days ago

    If you use a VPN, your employer/supervisor can’t see that you are on Pornhub, although, they do know you are browsing… something… that transfers a lot of data, and they know what VPN you are using.

    (assuming you are on your own device, if you use a work computer, they will know regardless)

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      3 days ago

      My work has blocked the use of VPN on their guest network, so I don’t use WiFi at all at work. Not turning off my VPN.

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        3 days ago

        They likely only block some of the more popular ports that VPNs use for the encryption handshake. You may want to consider fiddling with the VPN connection settings to see if you can bypass the block. My work WiFi blocks WireGuard connections, but IPSec/IKEv2 protocol is unblocked.

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      3 days ago

      if they can see browser cache, which is what i assumed “pre-loaded into the browser” means there, then a VPN won’t help. you’re still making requests to pornhub