The biggest scam is that these companies call their products "VPNs" incorrectly to mislead you. A VPN actually has to have a PN that you join your client to in order to access other targets in that private network. Eg you're at home and you want to access your computer at work, so you connect to a VPN set up at your workplace. What these companies give you is just a proxy to the internet.
These products were called "proxies" back in the day, but someone realized "VPN" sounds more awesome and has "Private" in it so they started calling their products that. The only connection these proxies have to VPNs is that they use the same tech under the hood (OpenVPN, Wireguard, etc).
These products were called "proxies" back in the day, but someone realized "VPN" sounds more awesome and has "Private" in it so they started calling their products that. The only connection these proxies have to VPNs is that they use the same tech under the hood (OpenVPN, Wireguard, etc).