Yeah, what’s weird is that they were advertising that they wouldn’t do something that they then went and did.
100% agree.
Rick Falkvinge, Pirate Party cofounder, had a good article making this point. https://falkvinge.net/2017/12/09/privacy-promises-company-worth-nothing-companies-cant-promise-anything/
Is there an alternative that is better?
doing everything in plain sight, and possibly getting some type of software that makes random internet activity to make even more cluttered data to sift through
it’s just common sense, using a VPN basically screams “hey I’m not a normie and I have something to hide”. Now you’ve cut down their work by 95%, because only 5% of people use VPNs at all