Every few months, the internet discovers a new opinion about VPNs. One week they are essential tools that everyone should use. The next week they are supposedly useless snake oil. Then someone on Reddit claims that HTTPS made VPNs obsolete. Someone else insists that a VPN makes you completely anonymous. Before long, nobody knows what to believe anymore. Image created by me using Create Studio 4. As someone who spends far too much time thinking about privacy, cybersecurity, an