[tylerl]

I remember specifically the same video the author was talking about (http://youtu.be/1PGm8LslEb4), and I also cringed when Destin read the ad copy for ExpressVPN.

Commercial VPNs are the homeopathy of the Internet.

They're selling snake oil. For all but the most impossibly pathological customer scenario, nothing that a commercial VPN can give you will actually protect you in any meaningful way. But they can hurt you. Since there's no quality control of any sort, and since their customers are self-selecting for dangerous behavior, it's a horrible environment to go mixing your traffic into.