I've never really bothered to look into it. Never used a VPN, the school laptops had one which we all knew at the time was spying on us. I've used tor to access onion sites, then logged into Facebook. So I'm probably not very smart. Because that was before most of the brain damage from abusing alcohol.

But I remembered hearing that some VPNs were trending in the app/play store from UK users downloading them in response to the age restrictions and it took this video for it to click 💡 in my mind.