A VPN is a crappy hack around a bigger problem. Protocols are not designed for what we use them for, and buggy legacy applications that won't change their prot

A VPN is a crappy hack around a bigger problem. Protocols are not designed for what we use them for, and buggy legacy applications that won't change their protocols or implement them correctly. The more people use VPNs, the more the problem gets buried behind a wall of abstraction. The proliferation of VPNs is really the burying of a problem, not the solution. I don't care about being tracked, because I live my life in the open. I'm not a vulnerable minority, so I don't fear for my safety. I don't care what a random corporation (or anyone, really) knows about me. You could log into every digital account I have, and the only thing I'd be worried about you finding is an active session to my bank's website if I was still logged in at the time. I don't care if my ISP "monetizes me". I also know how to browse the web as securely as possible, and that there are plenty of ways I can be hacked regardless of my network connection. The biggest risk I face is not from a VPN, but from my local network: if my internet modem or router gets compromised (either remotely or through my machine), I'm subject to local attacks a VPN won't protect me from. And if the government wants to hack me, they'll just guess what websites I'm viewing (either by conventional means or statistical traffic analysis), hack the server, and drop a payload through a browser 0-day. I could see using a VPN if I was an activist, or of a class of citizen that's oppressed by my society or government. But even then, they'd figure out I was using a VPN, and realize I'm hiding something. So you could argue everyone should be on a VPN to make this less noticeable. But then we go back to the beginning: we're not solving the root problem.