Why YSK: It appears several Lemmy Instances are flagged as suspicious and at least 1 instance intentionally using the name of ransomware. A couple of the big enterprise monitoring suites (Fortiguard, ZScaler) will flag your account and may end up with you being pulled into an office for an explanation, or worse.
TL;DR: Keep browsing to your local instance at work for now.
Serious question: there isn’t any tracking software installed on my work computer, and I use a VPN browser extension. Is it still possible for my employer to see what I’m doing?
Depending on the quality of your IT department; it’s quite possible that tracking software could be on your work computer and you simply cannot detect it. And yes, corporate tracking can easily detect what you are doing even if you use a VPN. It’s best if you simply use work computer for work only. Don’t even check gmail on it. Don’t even link your google account in your browser.
Security software isn’t tracking software. It should be able to hook into every current semi popular browser without you being able to disable it.
On the other hand, allowing users who don’t know the answer to the question you’re asking to both install VPN software and allow them this kind of traffic is a compliance violation to begin with.