From the article: “Unsurprisingly, this skyrocketed searches for the best VPNs. According to a SlashGear report sent to Mashable, searches for “Texas VPN” jumped by 1,750 percent in the past day. It also spotted a 1,600 percent increase for the phrase “How to access Pornhub.””
Just use proton VPN, the free tier should be enough.
His argument is that the average person won’t know any better and will just take the first sponsored result for “free VPN” of Google