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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: Why should I (the average person) use online privacy tools VPNs, Ghostery, etc?
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If you don't care much about privacy, the number one use of a VPN or proxy is to make you appear to be connected from another country, which then allows you to circumvent region-locking (think certain YouTube videos, the varying lists of movies and television series available on Netflix, and some regional censorship like the UK's piracy prevention system).

If you are in the UK and want to access a site blocked by your ISP such as Pirate Bay - switch on your VPN and access away.

If you are in France and want to access a movie on Netflix only available in Canada - switch on your VPN and watch.

More seriously, if you are in a country that enforces strict Internet censorship, the VPN allows you to skirt these blocks, vital to free speech and the flow of ideas and information.