Mullvad VPN

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/mikesc0tt on 2025-07-02 14:31:27.

What's the best practice for joining public wifi that uses a captive portal? Having my VPN on seems to throw a wrench in the whole process and I inevitably start an endless loop of turning wifi on and off, the VPN on and off, and switching browsers to trick the portal into returning. Is the way around this really to start with the VPN off every time? That's fine on desktop, but sucks on mobile. In my experience, the VPN toggle in iOS Is unreliable and the VPN status icon isn't always visible in the Status Bar.