A clarification as there seems to be some confusion: Whether VPNs solve the issue or not is irrelevant to my point. Their primary advertised feature is to hide

A clarification as there seems to be some confusion: Whether VPNs solve the issue or not is irrelevant to my point. Their primary advertised feature is to hide your traffic from your ISP, McDonalds or whoever, and people buy them. (Secondary feature is masking location for streaming services, which doesn't really work).