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The short answer is that I don’t trust the apps on the App Store for VPNs. Here’s my reply to my student’s question: I ran into this when I wanted to watch World Cup soccer matches not shown in the US but available in the UK I set up a VPN connection to a server in London so that it appeared I was in that city, and then watched the games on the BBC.

You want to appear to be somewhere else in the world.

You are away from your home network, possibly on an unsecured network such as in a café or an airport, and want to encrypt all of the network traffic coming to and from your computer (even traffic that isn’t normally encrypted).

There are two primary use cases for a VPN: I thought my rather long-winded reply might be useful to others wondering the same thing, and it’s appended below. Recently one of my students asked for a recommendation on a VPN app for his Macbook.