"We kill people based on metadata" <- Actual CIA quote (I think it was Pompeo)

They don't need to see the content. Not saying you can hide from them anyways since they are fucking lawless but it gets the point across. Your traffic is encrypted in transit (if you even trust https, another topic), but even most small websites sell themselves out for some bullshit at the expense of subjecting their users to sophisticated tracking that deeply profiles you *across* sites. If they are sharing on the backend, who cares if it's encrypted on the frontend.

I can actually only recommend one VPN, and that's mullvad. And maybe obscura.io once it's out of beta and more available. Paying for anything with fiat is nearly full KYC. It gets slightly better with privacy.com but not really. Beyond that though, whether you have one account or 20, it doesn't matter because it's tied to your real IP.

Tor is definitely the best but it's slow as all hell.