unless you have a specific concrete reason why you need a VPN, you probably don't need a VPN bizarrely, VPN companies have a financial interest in convincing you that you need a VPN. weird how that works. wonder what else it applies to

also i cannot stress this enough: if your ISP can spy on your traffic, and you use a VPN to avoid that, then whoever is hosting the VPN can spy on exactly the same traffic how much do you trust a random company you've only heard of at all because they gave a youtuber money

paying for a netflix subscription and then also paying for a vpn to get region-locked stuff you're not supposed to have has got to be the weirdest form of piracy