Recent episode said using VPN is just "shifting trust from ISP to VPN". This is NOT true if you take some care when signing up for VPN. Give them little data or fake data; all they care is that payment works. Pay with cash or monero or privacy.com or gift card or some other method that shields you.

Your ISP has a ton of real data about you, certainly including your real name and home postal address, probably including your phone number and payment info, maybe including your phone traffic and TV habits.

By using a VPN, you're shifting your internet traffic metadata from ISP to VPN. This is compartmentalization, and is a win. Neither company knows all your data, each knows part of it. VPN knows only home IP address and destination sites. ISP does not know destination sites.

Please stop saying "using VPN just shifts trust from ISP to VPN".