Tbh, even if PIA is a giant honeypot, if you use public wifi and pay with a gift card you purchased with cash...it doesn&#x27;t really matter in any substantial way unless they are willing to put boots on the ground to find you.<p>If they are willing to do that, even TOR isn&#x27;t real protection due to the fact it can and will be breached in the event of an active attack by malicious nodes on both ends of the circuit.<p>A VPN you can buy relatively anonymously [e.g. disposable gift cards bought with cash] and use with common sense [e.g. Not via your home LAN] are an effective privacy tool.<p>However, 99% of people aren&#x27;t going to go through that level of effort which makes them nearly useless for privacy purposes.