Yes, but my point is they've not been duped as much by the "free VPN" provider as much as they've been duped by the people who created the market for the "free

Yes, but my point is they've not been duped as much by the "free VPN" provider as much as they've been duped by the people who created the market for the "free VPN" provider. I found out while sorting through business contributors to a non-profit once that a pretty big market for mobile relays is the "free VPN" offered on the app stores to high school kids looking to circumvent the outgoing blocks on the school's wifi. In that case the school's administration could easily purge the "free VPN" of local users by removing the wifi restrictions. Instead, they serve more traffic to more nefarious places to maintain an illusion of control not for the kids in the school, but for themselves. All of this is basically Dr. Strangelove but with spyware rather than nuclear bombs.