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Yet another republican tax increase.
Depends on how much other media you consume. If you're forced to get a VPN anyway I bet you're more likely to start looking into pirating everything else, too
With Meta officially saying that leeching is totally okay as long as you're not seeding, go for it.
But you should totally seed and be a good citizen though.
Eh, I see it as a necessity in the modern age, it's politically agnostic for me. I run a full time VPN as a matter of privacy and security.
VPN doesn't really do anything for security, and it only really gives you privacy from your ISP. They're very much over-marketed by VPN companies.
It absolutely does provide security on a public WiFi network.
Not really.
If your browser is properly configured, it'll recognize a MITM attack, so you'll know if your traffic is properly encrypted because it checks root certs against a known good set. The only concern is domain name leakage (both from DNS and SNI), but that's a privacy thing, not a security thing. DoH fixes the DNS issue, so consider that for a low hanging fruit privacy win.
If you're accessing things outside a browser... don't do that on public WiFi unless you can confirm it verifies certificates.