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It may depend on your reasons for using one.

For example, if you travel abroad, yet want to watch your various streaming services; if you want to appear to be in Europe for things like Eurosport streaming; or if you want to see different regional offerings on things like Netflix, etc., then it may be worth it.

Whether the VPN is blocking Etsy, or whether Etsy blocks IP addresses associated with VPN's for anti-fraud purposes is up for grabs.

Some services will flag suspicious activity if you have been accessing the service from the same subscriber IP address assigned by your ISP, and suddenly you start logging in from an IP address in Djibouti or wherever. That's normal.

But if I could figure out which things are "worth it" and which are not, I would be in a much better position.