Partially, at least, they don't need to earn my trust as much. They don't have my name, address, date of birth and social security number/credit data, like my p

Partially, at least, they don't need to earn my trust as much. They don't have my name, address, date of birth and social security number/credit data, like my phone company does. The only positive point of trust a VPN provider has is that no-one has exposed them selling browsing data. Definitely not great, but also better than my phone company by default.