That's a fair point of cause, but if you need a VPN to hide from your government, then you need to be extremely careful about which VPN provider you pick. Potentially your VPN provider could be forced to, or voluntarily, hand over data to your government, without your knowledge, leading to a dangerous false sense of security.

You certainly shouldn't be running your own VPN either, because that would be much easier to track, seeing as your traffic isn't mixed in with that of others.

Those of us in free democracies have little need for VPN providers. For those who do not, I'm not sure that I'd trust a VPN provider how targets gamers via YouTube ads.