I wouldn't trust PIA for anything.

The whole company is shrouded in secrecy. After speaking at length with an ex-employee of PIA who now maintains this open-source iOS VPN client:

https://passepartoutvpn.app/

many (most?) employees and contractors at PIA have no idea of the identify of their direct managers.

Imagine working for a company and not knowing your manager's real name. Now imagine trusting that company with your internet traffic.

Disgruntled employees aren't necessarily the least biased sources one can find

Who said he is disgruntled?

Has PIA solved that issue a lot of providers have where services like Google voice recognition just fail to work better than half the time? I presently use AirVPN to bypass my carrier's video streaming limits but barely being able to use Assistant is a pain.

Is there any way to prove that is not NSA, say, and set up to only catch the biggest fish, or to always present parallel construction for criminals caught this way?

Of course you can't prove that, any more than you can't prove that YCombinator or FastMail aren't similar NSA operatives.

That's an interesting philosophical question.[1][2]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)#P... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_absence

I like you. I tend towards pyrhonism (or maybe I don't!) so I appreciate that response.

Degree of proof is a relative: Maybe a terror organisation use PIA, NSA go fishing for evidence PIA has nothing. Terror org assassinate NSA head. PIA could be a front, but NSA head had to be willing to lose his life to hide the fakery, and terror org wasn't a big enough fish ... more likely you're currently in a coma. Lots of places for false premises to creep in.

Dial it back, is there a point where there'd ever be enough evidence?