[bigiain]

> But you're still trusting someone to handle your connections reliably and fairly.

Some of us live in tinpot totalitarian reigemes[x] where ISPs are required by the government to retain "meta data" records of all customer connections and traffic.

It's a privacy win for me just to move the endpoint where my unencrypted traffic (and dns lookups) out of my local jurisdiction, since at least that way I'm not using a service that's required by law to snitch me out to any curious local cop... (Hopefully my chosen VPN provider really isn't keeping logs or snooping y traffic, but even if they are - moving that out of my local legal jurisdiction is an improvement for me...)

[x] That's a little intentionally overhyperboled - but fuck me our Australian politicians are making some insane laws around internet use by the whole population...