You’re the popcorn of the rich.

A VPN is only as much of a security improvement as the service behind it. If it gets installed in a shady way, how much trust can you put into the service?

Not that unusual depending on the software. A lot of them honour the TTL literally.

One enterprise software I know that does it is VMware vcenter. I’m sure there’s plenty of consumer software that retries excessively.

If a lot of it is chrome you might’ve identified the issue that’s actually plaguing you already.

Why not switch to Firefox+ublock… and… you complain about sign in requests when using incognito? Yeah, well, that won’t be different anywhere.

You sound more troll than 30 toolbars in IE4.