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This might be a good starting place for you.

That just moves the problem

It moves it from an entity that is highly motivated to monetize the customer's information to one whose business is to do the opposite.

Which could change at any time - the business could be acquired, subpoenaed, etc.

You can roll your own VPN on a cloud provider.

Still not perfect, but I'd argue Azure, AWS, and the like are less likely to try to inspect/monetize traffic than a consumer ISP.

When there is something that can be monetized, an MBA will eventually find it.