Unless you are using open WiFi in an establishment that offers “Free WiFi” the VPN may be doing very little for you, and arguably you might even be less secure as you are invoking the services of a remote server possibly in a different country, which will strip off the VPN protection and put the connection back on the Internet.
VPN Won't Connect? How to Fix this + other common VPN Problems Oct 25, 2019 Why does connecting to my work VPN cause my internet to What you are looking to do is called split tunneling. If you are using a Microsoft PPTP VPN, you need to uncheck "Use default gateway on remote network" in the TCP/IPv4 advanced settings for the VPN connection. If you are using another VPN client, you need to look for something related to split tunneling in the VPN client's documentations.
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