Trust me, I will 😉 But more seriously, it is not hard to research VPN providers and determine your own level of trust. Additionally, a VPN can be very handy when traveling out of the country and needing to connect to services as if you are still in that country.
Originally Posted by
gfunkdave
As long as you trust the VPN provider. Using a vpn is just trading trust from the local isp to the vpn provider. Either way it’s irrelevant if you’re using TLS, which you should be in this day and age of https being more of a standard.
There are are a few different concerns at hand here, and vpn probably isn’t solving the problem you think you are trying to solve. But as my friend says, you do you.