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Originally Posted by scottmandue
....but for a casual home user is it really necessary?
TIA
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Depends.
How paranoid are you?
Do you want to access content that may be geofenced?
I use
Nord.
I need to access backend systems at MSFT, Sony and Nintendo and that access is based on IP whitelisting which kind of restricts you to one or two locations, my office, home.
Using a VPN I can give them an IP address to whitelist that I can access from anywhere.
VPN will slow things down a bit but not something you'd generally notice.
Plus it's cheap as hell, currently Nord is $36 a year with a 3 year commit.