A very good report on just what a shady hustle VPN providers have become. There were connections to intelligence with one company that owns many VPNs, but you’d have to think there is a huge incentive to compromise others. There is a lot of money to be made by collecting and selling data, but another big impetus is to find people that are a threat to the oligarchs that control governments as well as getting compromising information that can be used for blackmail. Consequently, two that are often recommended are Mullvad and Proton if you’re really looking for a third party VPN. Your safest bet for hiding your home IP address and preventing your ISP from spying on you is to just run your own VPN server with a VPS provider anywhere you want in the world, which can be done for just a couple bucks per month (and you can also install Pi-Hole/Unbound DNS servers for even more privacy protection and ad filtering).