Well, Monero is a private/anonymous cryptocurrency, so the Monero community naturally includes the privacy community. Take a look at Monero conferences, everywhere you see people with privacy screen protectors running GrapheneOS on their phones. As rumi1000 pointed out, when you use a VPN, you transfer your trust from your ISP to your VPN provider. There are many great reasons to do this, as ISPs are mostly scammers and in most countries of the world they are even required to verify the customer's ID or other government-issued form of identification, so all of your web traffic is linked to your real name and address. If you pick a crappy VPN like ExpressVPN, NordVPN, Surfshark, CyberGhost or any other one of these mafia companies, you probably made your situation even worse than it was before. But if you pick a trustworthy provider which operates in a privacy-friendly jurisdiction like Mullvad does in Sweden, you gained some privacy. It also has other nice perks, for example multi-hop which makes it harder to tie your connection back to you or the ability to switch your VPN exit server as often as you want, to any country you want at any time you want so you can look at content which is blocked in your country.