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by Godel_unicode 3232 days ago
Just because there are options doesn't mean there's competition n the free market sense. In order to have competition, the market requires complete information (or as complete as possible).

VPN providers are not competing on security as there is (as others have stated on this thread) no ability to validate their relative security claims. Many people are advocating for VPNs as a pure knee-jerk reaction to monitoring by traditional ISPs.