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Don't use a VPN to promote CDN usage to save the global network some bandwidth?

Just turn off javascript and/or images.

Same bandwidth over my local connection, mildly more across backbone connections, not a big deal in total.

I feel like if the bandwidth used by content distribution really mattered, we'd see a lot more effort being put into multicasting. Even a basic stateless "multiple destination IPs" version could save so much bandwidth.

It disables efficiency from distributed CDN, but don't break internet. There were no CDN on early internet.

And CDNs can and probably will build a profile of you and sell it to the highest bidder.