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Please don't use free VPNs. Good VPNs that don't keep logs are not expensive, usually a few bucks a month.

What guarantee do you have that a paid VPN doesn't do that?

Of course you shouldn't use a free VPN for anything sensitive, but to obscure your browsing data (like what you search for or what media you consume) it's completely fine.

No, it's really not. Free VPNs aren't free for the sake of it; as the old adage goes "if you're not the customer you're the product".

Even if you're paying you're still an additional revenue stream, as this article about paid ISPs demonstrates.

> to obscure your browsing data...it's completely fine

You prefer taking your logs away from the potentially-prying eyes of regulated ISPs and giving them to an unknown, unregulated person? Free VPNs are a medicine that's--at best--only as bad as the malady.

The argument applies just as well to paid VPNs, though.

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