Sure, VPNs are marketed as a security measure, but for most people, the security benefits of VPNs are negligible. VPNs can be useful for hiding your browsing activity from your ISP or for appearing to be in a different country in order to access streaming services, but a lot of the claims made about them are pure nonsense. VPN companies make misleading claims about the security benefits of their products. For example, some VPN companies claim that their products use “military-grade encryption,” but the speaker points out that this is just a marketing term and that most websites already use encryption.
Sure, VPNs are marketed as a security measure, but for most people, the security benefits of VPNs are negligible. VPNs can be useful for hiding your browsing activity from your ISP or for appearing to be in a different country in order to access streaming services, but a lot of the claims made about them are pure nonsense. VPN companies make misleading claims about the security benefits of their products. For example, some VPN companies claim that their products use “military-grade encryption,” but the speaker points out that this is just a marketing term and that most websites already use encryption.
Tom Scott did a pretty good video discussing this in more detail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY