it depends on a lot of questions: - Where are you, the degree of abuse of power from network carriers wrt. things which change when users use VPN hugely diff

it depends on a lot of questions: - Where are you, the degree of abuse of power from network carriers wrt. things which change when users use VPN hugely differ. - Who are you the degree of risk you are exposed to where VPNs can help can differ a lot. - What do you do, e.g. if you do stream you probably want to keep your pace of of living private and in turn a VPN can noticeable reduce the risk. - Which VPN do yo use, some are pretty bad, some outright malicious, many soso, some focus more on the "private network" part and might not provide the same degree of privacy for some use-cases. Also some come with additional security features, e.g. preventing connections to known malicious servers and sides (which also can be abused by whoever provides that features, so not always a plus). - What do you even mean with "safe". All in all I would say depending on the country you are if you are a "typical non technical user" the answer rang anywhere from "yes, quite a bit" to "no it makes no relevant difference".