what's going on guys my name is Tom spark Oh welcome back to the video so guys maybe you're the average Joe maybe you don't need VPN maybe you do in this video I'm going to talk about five of the most common reasons why most people use VPN so that way if you're just an average Joe or just a regular person you could decide if you really need one or not anyways guys let's get into the video hey guys just a reminder to check out VPN to your list com if you want to help support the channel I recommend visiting my website using brave it's a great browser for privacy advocates if you guys visit VPN TOS comm by downloading Bravin using it by going to brave comm slash tom NUMBER_TOKEN:NUMBER_TOKEN - you can help support the channel so once you have brave installed and ready to go you could check out VPN tearless com it's a collection of all my ratings on the channel and you're gonna find lots of helpful information here on how to choose a VPN anyways back to the video I would say the number one most common reason to use a VPN is for torrenting content downloading copyright protected content or even streaming copyright protected content now depending on where you are in the world this can be illegal and this is one reason why a lot of people get emails from their ISP telling them that they're gonna shut off the internet service so what people will do is they will use a VPN to anonymize their activity to hide their IP so that when their torrenting content they don't get in trouble for it now I don't want to go into the legal definition of this if this is legal or not because it kind of depends on where you are in the world in some places like Switzerland for example I don't think you get in that much trouble and to be honest in most places in the world that you're not gonna get in that much trouble for downloading stuff and most you're gonna get an email a threatening email you're gonna get in trouble your ISP maybe but a lot of people don't really want to go down that road they just want to stay anonymous they want to be able to do what they want on the Internet you want to use a pNUMBER_TOKENp activity and not get in trouble so that's why they're using VPNs now for the people who don't really want to torrent stuff and stuff like that they just want to watch stuff legally what they will do with the VPN is unblock to your restrictions so they will access the most amount of legal content they can with the VPN provider and they can do this by unblocking jurisdictions so take for example if using a good streaming VPN and I've made videos on the top to streaming VPNs on the channel go check out that video mostly what I will recommend for people is tour guard with code Netflix using the streaming bundle or checking out expressvpn so what people will do is that they will use a VPN to access BBC iPlayer if they're not in the UK they can still use the VPN to trick the BBC iPlayer into thinking they are in the UK or what people do in Japan is they will use a VPN to access the USA version of Netflix Prime video Hulu or other G restricted services that are only available for USA people sometimes what people will do in the USA is they will use a VPN to access the Japanese version of Netflix to access more specific Japanese content so there
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN anyways guys let's get into the video hey guys just a reminder to check out VPN to your list com if you want to help support the channel I recommend visiting my website using brave it's a great browser for privacy advocates if you guys visit VPN TOS comm by downloading Bravin using it by going to brave comm slash tom NUMBER_TOKEN:NUMBER_TOKEN - you can help support the channel so once you have brave installed and ready to go you could check out VPN tearless com it's a collection of all my ratings on the channel and you're gonna find lots of helpful information here on how to choose a VPN anyways back to the video I END_SPONSOR_TOKEN