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That's.... not what people criticizing VPNs are referring to.

VPN's privacy claims are a scam. Reselling their own internet connection works, but advertising it that way doesn't.

The customer has no way of having any assurance of a privacy claim, and even past assurances can change at any time, and even if active monitoring or surveillance wasn't being done by the VPN provider, their data center, a third party along the way or the government, the VPN provider would still respond to a court order from the government undermining your privacy. Thats the part people call a scam.

Changing your reported location has nothing to do with that.