For commercial offerings this is probably true for at least some of them, but creating your own VPN isn’t terribly difficult if you are serious about your privacy. I typically just use them when I travel to countries like China where I can’t get to a bunch of necessary services, so I don’t mind if they route my YouTube traffic through CIA headquarters, but if I was doing anything more than that I would just set up my own.
Part of the point of a VPN is there’s not a dedicated IP tied to you (or at least tying all of your activity together). That doesn’t provide any benefit besides a corporate/government firewall bypass unless a mass of people are using your server.
There are a ton of obfuscating protocols that a VPN can run. obfs is one of the most popular. You can configure your VPN to appear as basically any traffic. HTTPS, DNS, QUIK.
For commercial offerings this is probably true for at least some of them, but creating your own VPN isn’t terribly difficult if you are serious about your privacy. I typically just use them when I travel to countries like China where I can’t get to a bunch of necessary services, so I don’t mind if they route my YouTube traffic through CIA headquarters, but if I was doing anything more than that I would just set up my own.
Part of the point of a VPN is there’s not a dedicated IP tied to you (or at least tying all of your activity together). That doesn’t provide any benefit besides a corporate/government firewall bypass unless a mass of people are using your server.
What homespun protocols you using from China? The regular ones like OpenVPN get blocked yeah.
There are a ton of obfuscating protocols that a VPN can run. obfs is one of the most popular. You can configure your VPN to appear as basically any traffic. HTTPS, DNS, QUIK.