I much prefer DNS unblocking to VPN. It's not foolproof, but when it works, you get your connection's full speed and latency instead of having a VPN all the way

I much prefer DNS unblocking to VPN. It's not foolproof, but when it works, you get your connection's full speed and latency instead of having a VPN all the way to India and back for all your traffic. This is for 1 specific use-case. For coffee shops and other free wifi places, as the author mentioned, VPN is better. DNS-only VPN connections are also useful for when you don't want to use the DNS of the connection provider which blocks your DNS of choice but not VPN. E.g. mobile phone. It all comes down to the right tool for what you need to do. The author is correct when they say that most people don't know what they're getting, but generally, a VPN is not more harmful than their home connection. Even the free ones.. and you know what.. you can use your own DNS server of choice with the free VPNs instead of theirs if you configure it correctly. So they log that IP address connected to IP address. Have fun with that info, it's really not very useful. Big downside to the free ones is that they are known IPs and already blocked from connecting by the service.