VPN not wasting money at all. For TM users, At least it can provide a secure connection for you unless if government order the VPN company to submit your account information and the network monitoring logs. But, chances for our government to do it is quite low because the VPN services we used mostly are provided by overseas companies, our government has no right to order them to do anything.

For other non-TM ISP like Celcom, DiGi, Maxis, P1, etc, their way of blocking the file hosting websites (which MCMC ordered to block) is quite different than what TM use. At this moment, for the users of those ISPs, the only ways to access those blocked sites is to use either anonymous proxies or VPN.