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Caption notes

Tom Scott examines several common VPN advertising claims. He distinguishes the contents of a connection from its metadata, then asks how routing traffic through a VPN shifts trust from the original network provider to the VPN operator. He uses promises about logging to ask what customers can actually verify from outside. The video closes with a parody ad that returns to the exaggerated sales pitch at the start. This guide covers his critique of the advertising at the time. Claims about specific apps, providers, and regulations were not independently checked.