[lmm]

> Anecdotally, the number of people who have asked me about VPNs over the last 12 to 18 months has skyrocketed. I probably get a message a month from people of all backgrounds.

That's probably more to do with the increasing popularity of China-style national firewalls/tracking (sorry, "age verification") than ads.

[Forgeties79]

Negative. They all want to block ads and protect their identity insofar as they can. Most of them don’t even realize the age verification stuff is going on. My friends that do know about that already have enough technical literacy that they don’t need to be asking me these questions