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by tylerl 2631 days ago
What you see as bad faith is actually a direct reflection of the benefits these VPN providers are claiming to provide -- if not explicitly on their own site (publishing false claims in writing often leads to bad outcomes) then at least in the ad copy they give to the Youtube hosts to read.

In ~100% of cases, you're safer SSH-tunneling your traffic to a cheap server at a cloud hosting provider.