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by developer2 1880 days ago
I feel sorry for average non-technical people who get hoodwinked into VPNs. The majority of people have absolutely no need for a VPN for "privacy" reasons, particularly these days with wide adoption of TLS which prevents ISPs from reading and/or injecting content into streams.

Modern cases for a VPN:

1. The few countries/regions with severely corrupt governments/ISPs.

2. Accessing region-locked services; eg. another country's Netflix.

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I use the TunnelBear VPN because it has a 500MB/mo free limit and I use their different servers in different regions to check the localization of prices/text on my sites.