While you are correct that the "evidence" is speculative, I've long thought that the seemingly coordinated push to get avg. people to use VPNs was suspicious. A

While you are correct that the "evidence" is speculative, I've long thought that the seemingly coordinated push to get avg. people to use VPNs was suspicious. Additionally, when I articles and comments rationalizing why one company is better than another, I see a lot of holes in what's said. For example, people don't seem to understand that registering (basing) a company in one place doesn't preclude it from operating elsewhere. Another thing, most people, including me, don't know who the owners and operators of these companies are. I see lots of comments about wanting to avoid gov't surveillance and the like, but w/o knowing the deets on the owners and operators, people could be just making the surveillance easier; same is to be said for those trying to avoid giving the data to their ISP (maybe the ISP owns all or a stake in one's VPN). So, I think that RR's advice in one of his/her articles about avoiding all of them is probably fair, although considered impractical for the average person @ this point.