Well, to give one use case example, when I'm traveling I want to access websites from a US IP address so that l18n settings on websites don't serve me in anothe

Well, to give one use case example, when I'm traveling I want to access websites from a US IP address so that l18n settings on websites don't serve me in another language or metric units by default. That's one way I use VPNs that have nothing to do with trying to hide from the NSA or whatever people think they're doing.