There is a fourth use case for VPNs: evading traffic shaping and censorship on public wifi hotspots. Many hotels block not just porn sites but also legitimate n

There is a fourth use case for VPNs: evading traffic shaping and censorship on public wifi hotspots. Many hotels block not just porn sites but also legitimate news pages (e.g. Torrentfreak), and most drastically throttle YouTube, Netflix and other streaming-heavy sites. A fifth use case is related: evading bad peering. Deutsche Telekom was infamous for years to "double dip", i.e. requiring that other (backbone/regional) ISPs pay them for peering, and so DTAG customers that tried to access Hetzner servers were throttled as the Hetzner-Telekom link got saturated in the peak traffic times. [1] https://www.golem.de/news/hetzner-und-netzneutralitaet-extrakosten-fuer-bessere-anbindung-an-telekom-kunden-1511-117711.html https://www.golem.de/news/hetzner-und-netzneutralitaet-extra...