[elagost]

Ok. Use a proxy, or set up your own Proxy/VPN on a VPS? Then you also have a VPS - you can host your own website there, use it to download stuff and rsync it back to your local machine, deploy nextcloud, etc., all for less than the cost of ExpressVPN. And bonus points, you can use unlimited devices.

[Tenoke]

Less of the cost sure but you are saving a couple bucks a month tops and replacing that with work on setup and maintenance instead. Moreover that way you get a single IP rather than the 40 different countries with multiple IPs my provider gives me.

[trhway]

By analogy with CDN VPN in that role is "Content Receival Network".

[dannyw]

90% of the average population doesnt know the first thing about command lines.

[schoen]

Geoblocking, and a practical way around it, could be a great motivation for them to change that!

[fomine3]

Set up your own Proxy/VPN on a VPS, is bad for fingerprint perspective. You get static IP in rare IP range for consumers. Pirating is also meaningless unless you use special hosting provider.