> Aren’t you afraid of using a VPN and their being ramifications?

Depending on the sophistication of the VPN software being used network traffic can appear to monitors as UDP[0] packets superficially similar to what many video games produce.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol

Okay, but user NewCzech posting to HN in the UAE could probably be deanonymized by the UAE for posting their comment, if the government got really interested in the matter.