Using a VPN prevents Starbucks from seeing which sites you connect to (by monitoring DNS traffic and IP addresses); I can see how people might find that useful.
If it's your own VPN, then sure. But if it's a random, untrustworthy VPN, it's just a question of who gets to sell your data. I also don't totally agree with the other poster's point. I think that it's maybe better for there to be multiple entities which each get a subset of the data (the different coffee shops I may visit), instead of a single one who gets everything (my VPN provider). Even if it's possible to somehow stitch everything back together again, at least this makes whoever's interested in my data work a little for it instead of having it on a silver platter.
Personally, I don't want my data sold at all. It's not Starbucks specifically who I want to prevent from selling my data. If it's totallynotshadyvpn.com who does it, it's just as bad.
"Personally, I don't want my data sold at all. It's not Starbucks specifically who I want to prevent from selling my data. If it's totallynotshadyvpn.com who does it, it's just as bad."
Personally, I don't want my data sold at all. It's not Starbucks specifically who I want to prevent from selling my data. If it's totallynotshadyvpn.com who does it, it's just as bad.