Hm, how does the VPN leak email data, passwords etc? Those things should never be passed in cleartext anyway, so I don't see how they can intercept anything exc

Hm, how does the VPN leak email data, passwords etc? Those things should never be passed in cleartext anyway, so I don't see how they can intercept anything except the metadata of what IP addresses you connect you, provided they aren't MITMing SSL somehow.