History's shown that for numerous VPN providers that's *not* the case. Chief val...

		dredmorbius on June 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Justice Department withdraws FBI subpoena for USA ... History's shown that for numerous VPN providers that's not the case. Chief value of (public/general) VPNs seems to be 1) accessing region-zoned content or 2) protection against local-segment interception. The benefit of 2) is balanced against the fairly strong probability that the VPN provider itself is heavily surveilled or actively aiding in monitoring activities.

With some vpn providers you can look them up in court records to see if there are any mentions of them keeping logs.