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When the product is "trust" there is no separation. I do no longer trust the CEO so I will not use the product that relies on that trust.
There is not a single product you use that doesn't have the support of some trump supporter behind it. You gonna go live in the woods off of the fat of the land?
The food you buy, probably 90% Trump supporters. Gonna stop eating? Drive a car? Use plastic at all? All Trump supporting oil barons. Gonna stop using that stuff too? No?
But you'll sit here and virtue signal that you're such a gooooood person because you're swapping over to another VPN...
That also ends up having the same supporters behind it. Great, you hate trump, wooo you're such a virtuous person, (news flash: I'm sure most people do) -- Now come back to earth with the rest of us. Too many of you people let this shit live rent-free in your heads constantly.
Congrats you managed to skip over the first and second sentence in my 2 sentence comment.
A VPN is not like a physical product. YOU ARE BUYING TRUST. You shift the point of trust from your ISP, network provider, government etc to the VPN provider. You say "I trust this company more than I trust these other players, so I use their VPN which hides my traffic from these other players but puts the VPN provider in a position where they can see all my network traffic".
Ah yes, the good old "its bad but everything else you do is also bad so you're not allowed to start changing a habit".
Thats exactly what keeps things like this going.
This is not "some". It's the CEO and then a company double down.
But you know that, else you would have laid at argument, not have written a 4 paragraph long whatabautism.
Nice to see common sense on here for a change.