Comment by istjohn
3 years ago
In no particular order:
1. To pirate content without getting sent threat letters or being sued
2. To prevent your ISP or the wifi access point or anyone else from seeing which domains you are connecting to and selling that data
3. To prevent government surveillance or blocking
4. To bypass corporate or institutional firewall rules
5. To prevent packet sniffers from snooping on public wifi
6. To prevent your parents, spouse, or relatives from seeing your browsing habbits in router logs
7. To access geo-locked content on streaming services
1. To pirate some content which isn't relevant for 99.9999% of the population yet still protected by Disney law
1. Nobody does gets those in Eastern Europe 2. This is a GDPR violation 3. If you have to hide something from your government then you should probably use something better than a commercial VPN. 4. Corporate internet usage is tied to your corporate account and the use of a non-sanctioned VPN is a massive red flag.