VPN organizations have a few characteristics i've noticed: 1) they're fairly cheap to run, so groups spin up from nowhere fast. 2) due to being cheap to run,

VPN organizations have a few characteristics i've noticed: 1) they're fairly cheap to run, so groups spin up from nowhere fast. 2) due to being cheap to run, they seem to gather industry newcomers with little experience who are seeking a low-hanging-fruit first project. 3) they have a quick business 'period'. They come fast and they go fast. Probably due to the low-experience and extreme competition in that sector. 4) they consolidate quickly into large groups, and those large groups are fairly fast to buy up smaller competition in an effort to control commodity price. >What if the government is offering up these servers for dirt cheap to VPN providers purposefully, and that is why they are all using them? I guess that's just dependent on the threat model you're abiding by. Most casual vpn-as-a-business isn't going to do much to protect from state level adversaries, anyway. The same phenomenon has happened in the US on the vpn market a few times now. I haven't checked recently, but a good chunk of exit structure was owned by London Trust Media last time I checked, a group that's affiliated with PIA and KAPE. I can appreciate the suspicion. I think that it's warranted; but personally i'm of the opinion that the market consolidation is more due to the nature of the product and the market that it exists within. Whether or not a state group is gaming that consolidation.. I would suspect yes, but hold no proof.