Because my threat model is a Wifi pineapple. I don't need protection from the entire Internet and all the governments of the world. I want to make sure an overzealous college kid isn't stealing my cookies.

And there were much better and cheaper companies for that like NordVPN and VyprVPN.

Neither of them would protect you against governments that much, but they do protect your privacy.

Do you want another place where all your data has been logged? I bet McAfee will have a field day with all the data tunnelbear has accumulated over the years.