Sorry, does anyone in tech actuallty use a commercial VPN? I have friends who are non technical who often ask me "what VPN provider should I use?", and my resp

Sorry, does anyone in tech actuallty use a commercial VPN? I have friends who are non technical who often ask me "what VPN provider should I use?", and my response is usually "Why are you using one?". They often say it's to protect their privacy from... someone, they don't know who. However they never know the privacy policies of their VPN company or how to protect against things like DNS leak. It seems most people actually use them to watch a streaming service in a different country. This is just piracy with a hat on. I don't understand why they don't just pirate the media without paying anyone a monthly fee and be done with it.