u/No-Hat-2797

honestly I’m not even surprised anymore. The other day I clicked on a site and suddenly it wanted me to verify my age with personal info before letting me continue. Bro I’m sorry but there’s no way I’m handing over IDs or sensitive data to random websites that probably get breached every other month so yeah i downloaded a VPN too. Not even for anything shady. I literally just wanted to browse normally without feeling like I’m applying for a passport every time I open the internet lol. What’s funny is these laws were supposed to stop people from bypassing restrictions, but now everybody’s learning how VPNs work because of it. Massive backfire ngl. Lowkey feels like we’re entering that “show ID before entering every website” era and I hate it here. Anyone else suddenly using VPNs way more because of all this age check stuff?

So I just read that Canada’s proposed surveillance bill is getting massive backlash from VPN companies, and apparently Windscribe even said they might straight up leave Canada if they’re forced to log user activity. Ngl this is kinda insane to me. Like bro the main reason I even pay for a VPN is so my activity isn’t being tracked everywhere I work remotely and travel a lot, so I’m constantly connecting to hotel Wi-Fi, coffee shops, airports, all that sketchy public internet stuff. A VPN is basically my safety net. But if governments start forcing VPN companies to keep logs of what users are doing then wtf are we paying for at that point?. Anyone else think this whole thing is getting way outta pocket?

Every VPN ad talks about privacy and streaming but I’m curious what people here genuinely use theirs for day to day. For me it’s mostly public WIFI and getting around random region locks but I know some people use them for work travel gaming or just avoiding ISP tracking. Wondering what use cases actually made paying for a VPN worth it for you