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Using a VPN just moves the trust to another middleman.
So use a trustworthy middleman? Surely you can find someone more trustworthy than advertising companies?
Yeah, a middleman you get to choose. That's a huge improvement. There are plenty of trustworthy VPN providers.
You can set up wireguard vpn on a tiny instance in Amazon or Google, and bounce traffic through that one. Then you control what gets logged (Amazon may have logs over all outgoing connections from all instances somewhere though).
You can even make it change it's public ip every day if you want.
Tor over VPN
Multiple middlemen are better than just one. Also, you can test its effectiveness.
Is that tinfoil hat comfortable?
Using a VPN means that all your traffic is routed through a possibly malicious actor.
Like Kevin Spacey?
That's gold, Jerry!