That's silly. That's like wondering why people use awful streaming sites to watch movies and not download high quality torrents instead.
Ease of use, easy of discovery, learning curves, etc.
Ease of use, easy of discovery, learning curves, etc.
General -> VPN -> add configuration and entering
- Server
- remote ID
- Username
- Password
This is less setup than adding an email account.
They may have heard of so-and-so app, install it, and boom, it works. That's very appealing, especially if it's a custom protocol that is supposedly harder to detect.
Or maybe their grandkids have set it up for them, and don't want it to be any harder than it needs to be. Yada yada.
It's not really hard to come up with answers like this. The two options aren't "complete expert" and "blithering idiot".
I regularly jump between UK, US and France in my VPN app.