Online privacy is a matter of utmost importance in our modern times. Anyone who takes their online security seriously would use a VPN (Virtual Private Network) to assume anonymity and hide their virtual tracks.

If you’re not using a VPN yet, it’s high time you get one and add another brick to your wall of online privacy. Whether it’s accessing a blocked website, getting search results optimized for a different region, or watching a TV show from another region, a VPN is just a tap away. And once your work is done, it’s pretty easy to turn VPNs off, too. You can use Google One VPN or a free open one like Orbot to get started.

For those of you who aren't sure how to disable your VPN (or its notifications), here's a quick guide to help you do just that.

Android doesn’t have a native VPN feature yet. The only way to use one is to download a third-party VPN app. You can disable VPN the same way you enabled it: from within the VPN app itself. However, Android does have a dedicated VPN settings option that houses all the VPN apps you might have. You can disable them all from here.