Tom Scott video on VPNs, very thorough explanation of when *actually* to and when not to use a VPN for privacy reason youtube.com
It's a really thorough and good video, but he does miss the usage of needing virtual networking between devices that aren't actually directly connected. I like this video
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EDIT: A TLDR of the video:
VPNs are useful for:
VPNs don't actually help much with protecting the contents you send over the web (these are usually encrypted), i.e.