One thing I never understood is that once your packets reach your VPN and your VPN decrypts them and forwards them to their destination(s), don't you get right back to the original problem?<p>I can understand the sentiment "$MY_ISP is awful! They could be selling my data! But if I'm using a VPN, $MY_ISP won't know exactly what I'm doing." But what about your VPN's ISP? And, isn't it true that your packets most likely cannot be routed from your VPN to their destination(s) without bouncing off of a couple things in between (unless you're using a VPN to go to the VPN's website)? Do Tier 1s have the right to log and sell traffic with the new bill? And what about your destination's ISP? Due to the volume of posts in favor of VPNs, I feel like I'm missing something here.<p>EDIT: according to another HN submission, it looks like I am not missing anything: <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170327/09244537008/just-use-vpn-isnt-real-solution-to-gops-decision-to-kill-broadband-privacy-protections.shtml" rel="nofollow">https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170327/09244537008/just-...</a><p>The article says in a quote "Traffic from VPNs doesn’t simply disappear: it merely resurfaces in another ISP that can subsequently monitor user activity"