Comment by doix

What do you mean by "scam"? That you pay and that they don't work at all? That they don't bypass the geo restrictions? Because they do.

Perhaps you mean that they are bad value(ripoff vs scam)? Then sure, probably they are. But you're basically paying to not get flagged by cloudfare. Back in the day, you bought a cheap server from OVH or some other lowcost provider, stuck openvpn on it (nowdays wireguard) and you were golden. But now that Cloudfare middle-mans half the internet, it doesn't really work anymore.

You pay the VPN providers for "clean"(ish) IPs so you don't get stuck behind Cloudfare captcha-loops.