As far as I see there are 2 uses for VPN.
1/ Being "safer" using public wifis. I use 5g hotspot to my phone to avoid that. 2/ Proxy to other countries for streaming reasons. Still use it for this.
All the rest is just bogus marketing speak.
1/ Being "safer" using public wifis. I use 5g hotspot to my phone to avoid that. 2/ Proxy to other countries for streaming reasons. Still use it for this.
All the rest is just bogus marketing speak.
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.
Having wireguard style VPN on a network that is unreliable can keep connections alive that might otherwise be killed.
This usually isn't due to any error correction, just bypassing the stateful nat deciding your connection is not valid anymore.
VPNs solve both of these problems for me, however shady they may be under the hood