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3. Avoiding government blocks/censorship/monitoring (if you trust your government less than the VPN provider). Not every country has open and free access. 4. A
by dharmab 3y ago
3. Avoiding government blocks/censorship/monitoring (if you trust your government less than the VPN provider). Not every country has open and free access.
4. Accessing your home country's internet while abroad, since many sites redirect you to a foreign market version
5. Checking if another geo has cheaper prices. Tom Scott mentioned he got cheaper prices on international rental cars by VPNing to the destination country than when going direct from a foreign country.
- Contusion3532 3y ago6. At least in the USA, ISPs can sell your browsing habits(DNS lookups, connection end-points) to third parties. A VPN that doesn't sell this data protects you from that level of snooping from the ISP.
- amanaplanacanal 3y ago7. Hiding torrent usage from my ISP so they don’t cut my service.
- xethos 3y agoY'all forgot adblock via at-home (or at least self-hosted) PiHole, for when you want to block ads on LTE.