“A VPN provider specifically seeks out those who are looking for privacy, and who may thus have interesting traffic. Statistically speaking, it is more likely that a VPN provider will be malicious or a honeypot” — What if the VPN company is based in Sweden or some other privacy respecting country? : technology

Statistically talking, most VPN suppliers aren’t based mostly in Sweden or another privacy-respecting nation, so I suppose that is true, but it surely is not arduous to seek out those which are.

And what the writer would not point out is that in case you do not take the chance that your VPN supplier is mendacity and presumably additionally breaking the regulation by logging your visitors, then as a substitute it’s important to take the chance that your ISP (and your authorities, and presumably even your public wifi hotspot) is logging your visitors throughout the confines of the regulation and the phrases of service. So it is a small danger of privateness violation vs. an enormous danger, or in locations just like the US/China/Iran, a close to certainty.