content: I'd say VPNs are a part of security in depth. VPNs do nothing more or less than hide your IP address from the sites you visit and make your traffic harder for your ISP to see. If those sites, or any government, are targeting you specifically, they can coordinate the traffic between the endpoints and your ISP, add MITMs, subpeona the VPN, etc. If you're being targeted, or discussing anything illegal, then VPNs are a minor roadblock at best. But, along with anti-fingerprinting tools, it can be part of your defense against mass/untargeted data harvesting efforts. Your plausible deniability with VPNs is that you're downloading torrents and you don't want your ISP finding out. That's what a lot of people use them for. That doesn't need to be "wierd shit"; say you're just a good goy who wanted to see the latest Jew propoganda film for free.