And to what are you VPN'ing?
Free proxy? So you are giving some unknown guy the best place for a man-in-the-middle sniff/attack?
Paid proxy in unregulated country? You are even paying him for the man-in-the-middle?
Paid proxy in regulated country? Hah, as if that helps. Still logging you.
I'm vpn'ing to 'safe' and good countries in the EU and other places.
I am 100% aware of the fact that my inbound 'calls' are logged at the ingress but I'm pretty sure that the exit traffic is NOT logged and I can create new sessions with new endpoints at will, even every few seconds if I really want to 'spray' my packets out
what the vpn buys me is that its not back-traceable (at least not without a non-free price or effort and that's good enough for me).
one down side to vpn is that a lot of services try to be 'smart' about who you are or where you are. example: if I login to mouser and I'm on a french vpn endpoint, they want to 'help me' by setting my language to french! I speak not a word of french but they don't care
also I've had orders that I place online CANCELLED when they see an inbound connect from a 'strange place' compared to where they think I should 'belong'. I ordered something once, got the confirm, paid for it and then an hour or 2 later, got a 'sorry, sale rejected, call customer service'. I did call and they were not sure what was wrong. they then asked me 'are you on vacation now?'. (laugh). I see what their problem was
google also wants to change my language. when I login to the techshop (love the place, btw; just joined a few weeks ago) and I look at their reservation calendar, its in another language since its google based (sigh) and google 'thinks' I am in holland or germany or something. if I close the vpn and source from my 'home' IP, the menus and widgets come back in english again. highly annoying.