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VPNs are a cool technology that companies like Nord etc use to sell snake oil push button security and normies just bought it up like antivirus software.
Their real purpose was to be used to access internal network resources from remote locations through a tunnel.
@splitshockvirus I would say, it was their initial purpose. Today the web is different and bypassing geoblocks, hiding your real IP, hiding your network activity from your ISP, etc. are indeed real purposes of VPNs too. @nerdtronics