[dathinab]

>VPNs are mainly for downloading movies and shitposting on the internet.

or not giving your ISP a list of which websites you visited when in a situation where you could only get internet by agreeing to allow the ISP to analyze your traffic and sell the result

or to avoid regional legal restrictions which are not on the level of "if you are found out you have major problems" like non GDPR compliant US sites blocking EU users and you are from the US on holiday in the EU (most such sites are very US-local specific)

or to avoid doggy price differences depending on from where you buy something

[floatboth]

And not giving website administrators the ability to GeoIP you.