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I agree that VPNs are generally over-hyped, but they absolutely offer an increase in protection here.

ISPs have historically done slimey things like hijacking DNS, and HTTPS leaks tons of metadata like what sites you’re browsing and for how long, and what user agents you have can easily be fingerprinted. And there are still too many IoT and mobile apps that don’t strictly use TLS for everything.