Is it safe to use without a VPN? Like for example, in germany? Literally asking not for one friend, but a bunch…

Sorry for “not just googling” this, but I stopped reading about that kinda stuff/ understanding enough to tell good advice and bs apart, like years ago.

Focused my nerd activity on social sience and regularily doing my best to chip in that kinda knowledge, so I thought, like, maybe, one hand washes the other ?