[m3ta]

Of course you shouldn't use a free VPN for anything sensitive, but to obscure your browsing data (like what you search for or what media you consume) it's completely fine.

[bluehazed]

No, it's really not. Free VPNs aren't free for the sake of it; as the old adage goes "if you're not the customer you're the product".

[btrask]

Even if you're paying you're still an additional revenue stream, as this article about paid ISPs demonstrates.

[JumpCrisscross]

> to obscure your browsing data...it's completely fine

You prefer taking your logs away from the potentially-prying eyes of regulated ISPs and giving them to an unknown, unregulated person? Free VPNs are a medicine that's--at best--only as bad as the malady.

[icebraining]

The argument applies just as well to paid VPNs, though.