VPN users
What do you use VPN for:
Only sensitive tasks like banking etc…
Only for online shopping
Only for browsing
Only when connecting to public WiFi
Use it for other reasons
Use it for everything
Most users that I know, use it selectively. Please share your thoughts.
Those are not valid reasons to use a VPN.
All banking and shopping connections are already encrypted with HTTPS. Adding another level gains nothing.
A VPN is NOT a security measure, yet somewhere it has been distorted to be some magical security cure all…
To watch TV content I can’t where I live. That’s it.
Reputal banking and shopping sites don’t require VPN usage. Secure enough with sensible awareness.
Mostly for region locked content, getting deals
Sometimes it is useful for finding flights.
What do you use VPN
Remote access to home and customer networks to access internal resources.
Nice try, 3–letter dudes 
Joke. One should use it for everything.
This has been my biggest issue with VPN ads on YouTube or wherever. Basically every “feature” they sell has been part of the standard for years now. We have HTTPS to encrypt the traffic, we have DNS over HTTPS now to hide where your traffic is going, we have WEP 3 now which makes it really hard to sniff traffic (which again, is all going to be encrypted anyways).
Basically the only thing they’re [commercial VPNs] are good for is making you appear somewhere else. Like I use one at home so I can SSH into my servers remotely, or we deploy them at work to allow people to WFH.
Then what is it for?
Wasting cpu cycles on something that gains you nothing
This. For most people it’s tapping in to paranoia to sell a product that doesn’t make you more secure and indeed adds another third party to the mix that you are supposed to believe is more trustworthy than your local ISP.
Net effect you are out a few dollars per month, have a slightly slower speed to the world and exposed yourself to someone who you know even less than that local ISP.
Securely connecting to another network over an untrusted medium.
I have unifi equipment at home so I just run the OpenVPN they bundle with it.
Ok so for security 
Yes, but not just for general browsing. There is NO FEATURE of a VPN that makes it make general browsing safer. It is basically how to get to point B from point A.