Bit of an uphill fight with captchas everywhere. Do people here conduct all online activity over VPN whenever possible? Only for the sensitive stuff? Or perhaps the inverse because the bank already knows you? Maybe when travelling or getting around region blocking? Something else?
The one provided by my work aside, I realized that I don’t have any consistent rules around using VPN. Except sometimes, you know, when downloading ISO’s for my favorite distos.
At home never, only sometimes a proxy (CyberGhost extension, Chrome, Firefox) in case of country restrictions. In my phone no need, I don’t use public WiFi, it’s enough with InVizible Pro. Apart the Portmaster app on desktop (Windows, Linux)
Someone else already put this in much wordier ways, but anything CyberGhost I would stay away from if you truly care about privacy on a significant level. You may want to consider using a full-on VPN like IVPN or Mullvad as much as you can if you’d like to stay away from targeted advertisements and profiles being built about the people that connect to things using your IP address.