Your ISP is very unlikely to have access to any traffic logging from your VPN endpoint, unless you are using the same ISP for both.
My solution to this has been to spin up a VPN server on Digital Ocean and just route all traffic through that. Bonus: native IPv6 over the VPN.
VPN's like PIA do provide a layer of abstraction; you could save a small amount of money running your VPN NAT on a VPS.
There is a document on the Digital Ocean site about how to do it, though: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...
By virtue of TCP/IP isn't it futile to think you can achieve "true privacy" without something like TOR? (A different protocol with the obfuscation baked in?)
Someone is always going to have logs of your activity, the goal being not giving them "end to end logs" easily.
- It's residential ISPs that are unreasonably tracking metadata, rather than infrastructure providers.
- Even if that no longer applies, it's possible to use a VPN in a friendlier jurisdiction.
- The details of what you are doing are more obfuscated. If you're sharing a VPN, that has obvious benefits. If you use an anonymous VPN, even better.
Ultimately there will always be some data about your internet use available to a determined adversary – it's ultimately just a side-effect of wanting to send data across a network. But I'm personally more interested in opting out of the dragnet-style metadata collection that's being played with in the UK, so keeping my traffic out of sight of my ISP is a benefit.