VPN providers trade a local threat actor who is probably ignoring you for a foreign one who is probably watching and analyzing everything. Best advice on this t

VPN providers trade a local threat actor who is probably ignoring you for a foreign one who is probably watching and analyzing everything. Best advice on this thread was doing a VPN back to your home router. Typically, you'd use one for default internet browsing on public wifi, with the expectation that your endpoint ends up on the list of a foreign intelligence agency who ostensibly doesn't care about you or what you are interested in. The other best advice used to be, "don't be a terrorist," but these days, it's more, "don't be a political actor," given whatever you type will be found and used as leverage if you achieve any prominence. I'd posit that security tech is sufficient for business, but not for politics. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat