Why? They have access to the same data, and a similar incentive to monetize. It will just be an _additional_ profit stream, not the only one.
(I trust a vpn to not be my isp or someone at the next table at a coffee place with WiFi. I trust paid vpn providers to provide decent performance. I’m not as worried about data mining)
Because I trust a private company 100x more than I trust the British government which forces all ISPs to keep my browsing history for a year and then gives dozens of agencies warrantless access to this data, including agencies like the Food Standards Agency. At least a private company has a financial incentive to keep my data safe.
:thinking_face: is the food standards agency more interested in browsing data from food-based corporations to ensure certain standards over your pleblian google searches? it's possible and sounds like a valid reason for sharing of this data. except it's broken because a loophole is to simply use an offshore VPN (guess that's harder for a corporation to get away with)
Much easier if anything. I work for a French software developer in the UK and all of our traffic goes through a Paris-based gateway as per company policy.
Serious question: why? Is there any kind of transparent auditing going on?