[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.