Would a VPN extension cover Chrome extensions that are not running in a browser tab?

VPN
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I’m using Windscribe VPN and JSTorrent Lite on my Chromebook. JS Torrent doesn’t open in a tab. It opens in a window. Is this just cosmetic like Google Hangouts? I want my torrenting to be through the VPN.

Alternatively, any of you guys have a VPN/torrent setup that works well for you (on ChromeOS)?

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A system wide VPN will work for ALL types of traffic. That’s a VPN you configure in the chrome system wide settings.

A proxy server setup through a chrome extension (such as ZenMate extension or similar) will ONLY work for normal browser tabs traffic (except for Flash, will will not go through the proxy)

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This works perfect: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/22235/has-anyone-successfully-set-up-openvpn-pia-on-chromebook-chrome-os

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If your Chromebook has Android support there’s a flag you can enable and if you install and connect a VPN Android app it will act as a system-wide VPN.

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There are external boxes you can purchase and you connect to it and then the box connects to the WiFi network and can be setup to use a VPN.

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That’s a shame. Do you know of any VPNs that support L2TP (so it’s a system wide VPN) that have free trials on ChromeOS? I couldn’t find any for free. I know all the good ones are paid but I don’t torrent enough to justify a subscription.

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I noticed here that pia supports l2tp so I might just go with that as I’ve used pia before.

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I’m pretty sure it’s enabled by default as I’ve not changed any flags and it works for me that way. I’m on developer mode so YMMV

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r/seedboxes
Useful to know but at that point it’s like paying a subscription for torrenting.

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I don’t know of any. However I would be careful using any “free” VPN that come as a browser extension. They can do a lot of shady stuff with the permissions that those extensions require.

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Private Internet Access has a 7 day money back guarantee, and they support both a L2TP vpn and a Chrome extension.

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l2tp

L2TP+PSK is not reliably secure anymore.
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/21638/why-do-we-offer-pptp-and-l2tp-ipsec-psk-if-they-aren-t-fully-secure#latest

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I’m not using the VPN for security reasons. And my Chromebook has restrictions preventing me from activating Dev mode so I can’t use OpenVPN, making browser extension VPNs and L2TP my only options (though I could be wrong). But thanks for the info!