Actually - I'd take this article with a grain of salt. Though I'm still not convinced that VPNs are as secure as claimed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintPress_News

MintPress News (MPN) is an American far-left[1] news website. It was founded and edited by Mnar Adley and was launched in January 2012,[2] and also publishes the MintCast podcast. The site covers political, economic, foreign affairs and environmental issues.

MintPress News supports Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and the governments of Russia, Iran, and Syria.[3][4] It opposes the governments of Israel and Saudi Arabia,[5] and reports geopolitical events from an anti-Western perspective.[6] In one contentious article, MintPress News asserted that the Ghouta chemical attack in Syria was perpetrated by rebel groups rather than by the Syrian government, a claim pushed by the Russian and Syrian governments and rejected by much of the international community.[4]

MintPress News was a major media domain that spread disinformation about the White Helmets, a Syrian volunteer organization.[7] The site has been accused of regularly publishing pro-Russian propaganda,[8] and has been described as a conspiratorial website by media studies and disinformation scholars.[9][10]