PIA gets a lot of recommendations but no one ever mentions that a great number of sites prevent you from using them from the PIA addresses. I've had a lot of trouble with financial and e-commerce sites in particular (which are also the situations I really care about using a VPN).
I think it might be that PIA is frequently used for DDOS and abuse since it's so inexpensive.
Just something I wish I had known before signing up.
As a developer, I would actually have to read up to know exactly what a VPN is and what I can do with it. I have a rough idea, but as it has never been something I have worked with, I have little knowledge of them. Now how would you expect the general public to manage, without someone giving them a decent explanation of them.
Private internet access (dot com) provide a point and click interface for windows and mac os x. On linux one has to manually config but it's not that hard. I have had non-technical people use it with no issues. I am sure there are others out there.
Where did you read this? I haven't check in in a while, but I remember doing research to ensure the provider I used wouldn't be logging - and I settled on PIA.
People are just not aware of these problems, and when you tell them they often downplay them, because they seem far away and until something goes wrong they think it can't happen to them. Also, it's not easy to convince people to pay for prevention rather than to fix an existing issue.
People struggle with connecting their laptops/tablets to WiFi. Expecting them to configure a VPN on their own is a stretch.
You could start a small SaaS business that could make "lifestyle business" type money if you did this well.