'Kinda of' all comes back to how we can't do things off other people's back who are anyway known to be this way (and profit-driven let's say) and always leveraging something to get us to invest also in tech or another geography's +/-'s in order to get an edge which eventually people . and tech discovers:
"omg we're beeing killing this and didn't evyer realise)... is bad in the long term term end game we are constantly learning later...
Kinda of like (Europe) piping / routing ***everything** through America despite their egregious laws and previous 'efforts' with whistler growler... still feels like people are going for the candy like: 'oooh I can upgrade for double ramm for $8 is something.... just bad leverage in the end.
@freeschool
One factor (not mentioned, but relevant to some).
Article covers many track methods not protected by VPN alone (but VPN can still help protect - isn't solution for everything).
Another thing being sometimes the ownership isn't what it appears to be. Not mentioned, but relevant.