It makes me smile when I come across someone struggling with the decision of whether to get a VPN. It makes me smile not because of the indecision and relative lack of knowledge, but because it wasn't so long ago I was in exactly the same position—perceiving VPNs to be some kind of extreme measure only the paranoid and the criminal resorted to. How wrong I was.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.privacyguides.org/2020/05/04/why-i-run-a-tor-relay/