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Are third-party VPNs worth the money?

It depends on how you use them – using one to access a private (business) network is good – using a third-party VPN to “hide” your traffic may be bad – some pros actually recommend against using one! Are they really just a “glorified proxy”? Can they really steal your data? Can you trust your VPN company more than your ISP?

But my provider doesn’t log!
There is no way for you to verify that, and of course this is what a malicious VPN provider would claim as well. In short: the only safe assumption is that every VPN provider logs.

And remember that it is in a VPN provider’s best interest to log their users – it lets them deflect blame to the customer, if they ever were to get into legal trouble. The $10/month that you’re paying for your VPN service doesn’t even pay for the lawyer’s coffee, so expect them to hand you over.

But I want more privacy!
VPNs don’t provide privacy, with a few exceptions (detailed below). They are just a proxy. If somebody wants to tap your connection, they can still do so – they just have to do so at a different point (ie. when your traffic leaves the VPN server).

Link to article: Don’t use VPN services.