> This class of disruption can be worked around using VPN services, which are able to circumvent government internet censorship measures.
Well, here's something for people who insist all VPN services are a "scam". VPNs play an important role by circumventing censorship in countries with more network level internet censorship.
That's.... not what people criticizing VPNs are referring to.
VPN's privacy claims are a scam. Reselling their own internet connection works, but advertising it that way doesn't.
The customer has no way of having any assurance of a privacy claim, and even past assurances can change at any time, and even if active monitoring or surveillance wasn't being done by the VPN provider, their data center, a third party along the way or the government, the VPN provider would still respond to a court order from the government undermining your privacy. Thats the part people call a scam.
Changing your reported location has nothing to do with that.
Well, here's something for people who insist all VPN services are a "scam". VPNs play an important role by circumventing censorship in countries with more network level internet censorship.