Comments by "" (@diadetediotedio6918) on "are VPNs worth the money? | lowlevelrants" video.

1:41 This isn't ridiculous, this is called privacy, you choose who you trust with your data.
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@mskiptr It is not equivalent, literally because you are choosing dear. Do you understand the difference between being forced to hand over your data to an ISP that you are not sure is reliable or not, and choosing a company or institution that you <trust>? Because this is <literally> what defines privacy, it's choosing who you want to hand over your data to, it's having that right to choose, in any instance using the internet will leak your data to <someone>, the choice of <who> is which will set the level of privacy. And of course, of course you could be wrong in your choices, but that doesn't take away from the criterion that they were <your> choices and not something practically inescapable like an ISP.
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@_nikeee You can use anonymous VPN's and pay with Monero too, the question is the choice for who will see your data (in Tor there is still line for this as the data needs to be decrypted at the exit node)
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@_nikeee Because at least you will have more control over who has the nodes that are going to encrypt your data, in the case of Tor you are vulnerable to a specific amount of things and are ultimately just spinning a roulette wheel and hoping that a conventional node (the last) will do the trick. There is a more interesting point too, the speed using an anonymous VPN will probably be higher as it does not have all the complexity and latency of the Tor network.
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LOL, you pay them
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You can use anonymous VPN's like safing, then use Monero to pay and need no account using your real data. If you know how to do things you know how to do things.
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They do add, DNS is not usually encrypted (except for DNS over TLS, but in some countries this is not standartized as ISP's have their own DNS)
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@mskiptr 1. This information about my devices is of absolutely no use when I am using a paid VPN with anonymous methods, they will only be able to sell general and not specific data about me (if they are going to sell it), so it doesn't make much sense what was stated here. 2. About 'd', you can judge this in many ways, as the data is encrypted (and depending on the encryption method used) they (ISP) may get inaccurate information about my data usage, still I will concede this point as the variability will depend on several factors. 3. Routers cannot know from 'b' to the point where we are on the VPN servers, because the network traffic is encrypted, they will only know that I am directing my data to VPN servers (and in some VPNs some relay servers are partially community and distributed, which makes it difficult to use this information for something useful). After the VPN the routers will know about 'b', but this information will be practically useless for them. Point (1) defeats your assertion that VPN's are honeypots, if my identity is anonymous (and there are VPN services capable of being used basically completely anonymously) then there is no way for them to learn anything useful about my behavior, all they will know is my origin IP (and they won't be able to know if it's my home IP, or if I use some other service before theirs, etc). (2) and (3) are bonuses.
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