Ok, thanks for the info. When I search for a VPN provider, not keeping logs was a requirement. Sure it’s still just trust, but the community that seems to care about privacy gives them some credibility. What I believe I’m getting out of a VPN is, with all the activity I do online, I’m just making a slightly smaller attack vector with my IP info that gets advertised.
“Doesn’t keep logs” means nothing. Any government in the world can mandate your VPN provider to log all your traffic and forbid them from telling you they’re doing so.
Some providers base their entire business strategy on privacy concerns. I guess it’s a matter of finding those that are sincere and have credibility in the community. Some providers have been known to post a page of meaningless data spread via the community and if they are ever mandated to log traffic, they just pull the page down as their way of saying, we’re logging and can’t be shown that they said anything.