It's not that they're more trustworthy it's that you have more control. They could be feeding traffic to the NSA as well but you can encrypt it yourself -- with VPN services like Nord you're relying on other people to do that for you but often VPN services can offer convenience services like country switching etc but if security is what you're after then cloud providers and setting up your own VPN seems like a more reliable alternative.
To the people looking to setup a simple http proxy in three steps:
1. Set up a server instance who's IP you know and have configured ssh.
2. In Browser: Manual SOCKS Proxy: 127.0.0.1: your_chosen_port
3. In terminal: ssh -i ssh_key -D your_chosen_port user@ip_address
To the people looking to setup a simple http proxy in three steps:
1. Set up a server instance who's IP you know and have configured ssh.
2. In Browser: Manual SOCKS Proxy: 127.0.0.1: your_chosen_port
3. In terminal: ssh -i ssh_key -D your_chosen_port user@ip_address