[eximius]

The problems with clicking past those errors are typically not due to network sniffing but with whatever crazy shit is on the page they are going to.

The only two valid usecases of big VPNs like these are

1. Very mild security increase over public wifi 2. Shifting your risk from the ISP spying to mullvad or the VPN provider spying or slightly anonymizing if mullvad rotates IPs.

(2) is a real benefit because ISPs are pretty terrible, but it's still pretty minor in the grand scheme of most people's threat models.

[zarzavat]

3. You live in a country where your ISP is legally mandated to record all of your browsing history and make it available to the government.

4. You live in a country where certain websites are blocked because the government doesn’t agree with them, or because those websites don’t want to deal with your country.

[Kwpolska]

Those countries probably block VPN services, especially the popular ones which buy all the ads.

[zarzavat]

There are some countries that block VPNs but there’s also many countries that don’t. For example, TPB is blocked in UK by court order but VPNs work just fine.

[zolbrek]

Certain Russian news websites are DNS blocked in the EU. I haven't heard of anyone having serious issues using a VPN.

[digging]

Yeah, I hate my ISP. I am certain they sell every bit of data they can. Ergo, I use a VPN most of the time.