[mashpoe]

Anyone who knows anything about VPN services knows that they don't stop people from looking in on what you're doing; they only stop people other than the provider from doing so.

Most if not all of the big VPN providers collect data and give it to law enforcement, which isn't exactly news to us.

Tom Scott had a pretty good video on what VPNs can actually deliver on, despite the claims of many sponsored content creators. He lost his VPN sponsorship because he pointed out, among other things, that you don't actually have guaranteed privacy with these services.

[andreareina]

My read is that it was more about the stuff he was calling out as legitimate[1] use-cases (which iirc included piracy).

ETA: I'm surprised these providers are even able to market with the use-case of evading geo-locking without getting sued (tbc I'm against drm in general and geo-locking in particular)

[1] from the standpoint of, "is this a good reason to use a vpn", not "does society/the law consider this a legitimate thing to do"

[ipaddr]

I doubt it is against the laws where the provider is located.

Geo-locking isn't a law. It might have been part of the tpp that the US never signed.

Certain marketplaces don't allow vpn advertising or wording like that.

In reality they act as a Canadian store selling drugs to the US customers at a discount.