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The "You don't need a VPN" absolutists are completely missing what people go to VPNs for. The supposed debunking usually is along the lines of "TLS protects you well enough anyway", which doesn't work for:

- People who have ban-happy governments,

- People whose ISPs use DPI to harvest data on what they are accessing, and

- People who need to evade region blocks.

It's simple: you get a VPN if your threat model is your ISP or your government. Unlike my IPS, which has a quasi-monopoly in my area, if the VPN I use keeps logs I can take my business elsewhere, and many VPNs have had their no-logging provisions audited and tested in courts. I despise both my ISP and my government, and so I'm perfectly happy paying for a VPN.

Even for the so-called normies who are buying VPN subscriptions, it is rarely because they think it's more secure and almost always for evading region blocks. Every VPN that advertises on YouTube content creators has completely changed their marketing to emphasize this.