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That is idiotic.
VPNs absolutely have their places.
But if you don’t trust your ISP, why would you trust your VPN service with all your internet data?
Because I trust my VPN more then my ISP. This is a pretty obvious and common answer.
That is a fair answer.
Though I would hesitate to use your trust in your own ISP and VPN as a blanket statement for trust with regards to other’s setup
Sure. Everyone needs to evaluate who or what they trust based on their own threat model.
Most people don’t have a choice in their ISP. Or the government which provide provides oversight… But if you are privileged enough to have a ISP, you can trust, you’re certainly amongst the minority.
At least VPNs take transparent steps to protect you. At least there’s evidence supporting that.
Most people outside of the US does absolutely have a choice of their ISP.
I think this is a bit more like it. I once had a very nice and transparent ISP for some time, due to circumstances. They didn’t keep any logs at all. That’s better than most VPN providers. So any VPN would have been a major downgrade for me. Now I’m with one if the major Geman ISPs. I’m pretty sure they don’t steal my data, because that’s not in the contract we signed. And not like common knowledge that they’d do anything like that. I think I trust them more than a random NordVPN or shady super cheap VPN provider. Sure they’ll do lawful intercept. And there are use-cases for VPNs. But I rather do my online banking without any VPN and the data travelling through 3 other countries, since I have a good alternative. Also makes gaming, videoconferencing etc faster/better.
And a VPN just doesn’t do much in a lot of scenarios. For example if my cellphone provider uses or sells my location data from the cell towers… That’ll happen with or without a VPN. You’d be better off changing providers.
Sense to me like you don’t know what a VPN is for or what it does.
And what would that be?