Well, uh, that's definitely not the point of VPNs when I use them. It's very unlikely that a private VPN provider is more trustworthy than either a decently-sized ISP or a government.
VPNs are useful to avoid negative effects of traffic analysis and bad QoS, bad neighbors at a public access point, and give privacy or a different geolocation when accessing specific individual destinations on the web (e.g., an IRC server that would emit your IP into the public log). Generally, VPNs should be used as needed to serve one of these specific purposes, not 24/7.
Expecting protection from your government or ISP for $10 / mo is a tad unrealistic.
Interesting. PIAs entirely marketing argues differently, even going as far as the typical 2000s era scare tactics of telling me where my IP is geolocated, and that the government can read my data.
VPNs are useful to avoid negative effects of traffic analysis and bad QoS, bad neighbors at a public access point, and give privacy or a different geolocation when accessing specific individual destinations on the web (e.g., an IRC server that would emit your IP into the public log). Generally, VPNs should be used as needed to serve one of these specific purposes, not 24/7.
Expecting protection from your government or ISP for $10 / mo is a tad unrealistic.