> It's not clear to me why the VPN people are more trustworthy than ISPs.
Surely it's because it is their business model.
ISP's have been proven to snoop and inject into traffic. They sell your data to those that have money. This is a breach of your privacy.
On the other hand if a VPN provider were caught doing that, it would be abandoned by it's customers overnight. It is the primary risk to the business.
With VPN services I have a choice, but with an ISP they hold most of the cards (I can leave them once my contract is up). ISP's take your trust and abuse it, VPN's have to earn it.
Where I live, I've never heard of ISP's doing this. Actually, they have been nothing but good so far. It might help that 1Gbit is a commodity here. You can't really get anything slower than 500Mbit. There's also enough competition to force them to innovate.
I don't neccesarily trust them, but they haven't done anything "evil" or questionable yet.
Surely it's because it is their business model.
ISP's have been proven to snoop and inject into traffic. They sell your data to those that have money. This is a breach of your privacy.
On the other hand if a VPN provider were caught doing that, it would be abandoned by it's customers overnight. It is the primary risk to the business.
With VPN services I have a choice, but with an ISP they hold most of the cards (I can leave them once my contract is up). ISP's take your trust and abuse it, VPN's have to earn it.