Summary
Your activity can be identified by how much data you are uploading/downloading. Using this feature to spoof your actual upload/download numbers.
Traffic-Based Detection
Even when your data is encrypted, certain apps or websites you access can still be identified by your data volume (how much you updated/downloaded from a specific website.) This data can be used by your ISP to execute a network correlation attack and deanonymize you.
Disguise Your Traffic
By turning on Decoy Traffic, the Windscribe app will generate random activity over the tunnel and upload/download random data at chosen intervals. This helps anonymize your activity and is especially important in areas of heavy censorship, when doing any type of “high risk” activity.
By the way
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Check out our blog for a deep dive on how to combat traffic correlation attacks with Decoy Traffic mode.
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Enabling this feature will increase your data usage considerably. Keep this in mind if you are on a limited data plan.
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