>> whether it’s through phishing emails or data breaches >A VPN won't protect you from those, at all. There has been a ton of misinformation about VPNs, sprea

>> whether it’s through phishing emails or data breaches >A VPN won't protect you from those, at all. There has been a ton of misinformation about VPNs, spread in particular by commercial VPN marketing teams. They've been paying people like prominent youtube content creators to say outlandish shit like "without a VPN, you can't securely check your gmail on wifi." Due to the nature of their advertising with content creators, it's hard to determine if the exaggerations and falsehoods are coming from the companies themselves or if they're coming from over-enthusiastic content creators who earnestly don't understand the matter themselves, but in either case I consider the companies responsible since they approve of the misleading messaging.