why don't you have a vpn on the laptop?
I realise the point being made, that to blindly trust a vpn on your phone is a bad idea. But surely installing a vpn on your laptop is not that difficult. Tunnelblick is easy enough.
And you should always use it, not just when you want to hide your internet usage, otherwise you're still giving away useful information through the omission of observable traffic.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
