Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters

I'm surprised no one has mentioned iCloud Relay-style Multi-Party Relays yet: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2024/11/17/where-are-...

It greatly improves on the existing VPN trust model by separating the "who" (connecting IP, potential payment info, etc.), from the "what" (IP traffic). You no longer have a trust a single entity not being malicious or compromised.

Disclaimer: I run obscura.net, which does exactly this with Mullvad (our partner) as the Exit Hop.

so now i have to trust two providers doing the right thing instead of one?

It's trusting A OR B, rather than A AND B