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Commercial VPN

A private service that offers to securely relay your internet communications via their own network. A VPN may be hosted in a foreign country, which is useful both for protecting communications from a local government, and bypassing national censorship. The downside is that the traffic is decrypted at the commercial VPN's end. That means you need to trust the commercial VPN (and the country where it is located) not to spy on your traffic.