| There are lots of problems you see in practice which are not discussed often.... * Inability to send mail though a mail program * Daily disconnections of VPN service * Captchas and other verification/friction when using services (eg youtube, amazon etc) * Some services may believe you are in a different country incorrectly, meaning you have to force them to use the right location, or be happy with it being wrong * Some services will not work at all (for example purchasing through apple) * Paid streaming services – like netflix, hbo go and amazon streaming will likely not work at all * You may not be able to port tunnel traffic inside the VPN And of course you have to trust the provider. For example PureVPN claims 'no logs' but it seems that isn't the case... https://betanews.com/2017/10/09/purevpn-logs-fbi/#comments There is a lot of friction in using a VPN. Which makes the idea, often proposed by technical people that if you are worried about privacy - 'just get a VPN' either naive or disingenuous. That said even with the friction it is worth the cost and hassle IMHO. In practice you have to have a way to flip on and off VPN on some machines/devices. There is more discussion on this here... http://www.toytheory.com/?p=295 (edit: fix formatting) |