How to distinguish a reliable VPN?

Question

VPN

There are many means of anonymization, but they all do not work when you are hunted. In any case, such a conclusion follows from the information on this topic. In the deanon torus, through a script on the server, through I2P, sorry, it's so difficult that I don't really understand how, but it's possible. And a lot more about proxies, about packet interception, about logs... I will definitely look into the technical side of the issue, but at the moment the question is, what kind of protection against deanon can be considered sufficient to trust it in a pinch? Correct me if I'm wrong, but all other methods of data forwarding are still variations on the VPN theme and have not gone far ideologically. In this regard, the question is: how do you decide that this or that service can be trusted? A few articles about NordVPN spying on user traffic are enough for me,

Answer 1

If you are going to do something illegal, then the very fact of hiding traffic will already be a signal for the major.
If you just need to hide ip from the service - expand your vpn

Answer 2

No way.
Only "own VPN = reliable VPN". And then, under certain conditions (the hoster will easily make the VM image so that you will not notice, encryption will not help, because there is no trusted bootloader, even the Dedik assembled by you and sent there will not help - as soon as you lose "feedback" - the possibility visually control the server - that's all, trust at the paranoid level ends)
Of course, this is all at the paranoid level - in most cases, nobody needs you. Real anonymization is difficult, tedious and very expensive .