One thing which that ARR episode failed to emphasize is that your choice of VPN provider is very dependent on where you are.
There's a Chrome extension called Hola VPN ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...fbnlmeio?hl=en) which I've used myself, it lets you mask your browser as coming from a country of your choice - for example, it let me buy train tickets in New Zealand a lot cheaper. (They have different pricing for local IPs, even though the cheap tickets can still be bought with foreign credit cards!)
But if you've got a more serious use in mind - such as circumventing Google/Facebook service blocking in mainland China - you need a VPN that's specifically designed for the market you're in. It has to be one that's got a nice big ingesting hole close to where you are located, and a nice fat pipe to wherever the tunnel is coming out into the wider Internet. While I was traveling in China, I used my office VPN service - and yeah, it worked, but interconnection speeds between the Far East and Europe/USA are terrible on an ad hoc basis, so the tunnel between my laptop/phone and my office in Estonia ran over a length of string and two tin cans, if you get my drift. If you're using a commercial, paid VPN that's specifically targeting China users, they're a lot more likely to have sorted that problem.
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