Why YSK: It appears several Lemmy Instances are flagged as suspicious and at least 1 instance intentionally using the name of ransomware. A couple of the big enterprise monitoring suites (Fortiguard, ZScaler) will flag your account and may end up with you being pulled into an office for an explanation, or worse.
TL;DR: Keep browsing to your local instance at work for now.
So if you were, say, using a VPN on your personal phone at work on their internet, would you also get in trouble?
If it’s a personal device, at worst they would see you are using a VPN and maybe ask what’s up with that, but they can’t mitm you on your own device.
Why would you join your phone to the company wifi? Mobile data is cheap (at least where I am). I’ve never joined my personal phone to an employer’s wifi. At least not in the last five or so years.
cell reception is spotty where I work and there’s a guest WiFi option and they allow VPN. works Wi-Fi works for my use case.
True. I wouldn’t, I was just curious.
Where I am, I’m on prepaid. It’s not cost-effective to pay for a full plan (when eg.: I already have internet at home).
Most probably not. Unless you’ve installed custom root certificate provided by them. (which you most probably didn’t)