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Originally Posted by gtfc1984
The whole point of a VPN is users don't want to be tracked and stay protected, any sites that don't work just turn the VPN off temporally. All data coming through the VPN is encrypted hence slower speeds but stops your ISP from seeing what your downloading although some VPNs log activity.
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It's the bandwidth at the VPN provider that causes the slowdown rather than that it's encrypted.
Basic encryption isn't especially resource heavy now.
EDIT: Would be interesting to find out how many people use VPNs for generic privacy versus using them to get around geo-location restrictions versus using them to leech copyright content without the copyright police sending threat-o-grams.