If you just want to go around a censor, vpn, free vpn even, will do the job. CIA may read your traffic, but for many the point is to get around the censor not to gain more privacy. (I'm not advocating for this as the perfect solution, just *expecting* this is what the majority chooses to do)

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I thought about this and you have a point. There is THAT use where you just want to trick netflix or watch youtube from china. But ultimately you are placing "url + ip + location + datetime + associated address + date of birth .. " in the hands of a VPN you know nothing about.