>Don't even need data from VPNs most of the time, just google analytics, or html canvassing/fingerprinting, or some other browser leak. Mozilla has had no moral fiber the last few years so their tracking and telemetry might be piped directly to the government at this point. Chromium is developed by google, who wants to track you anyways.
Everything that is passed through online is captured by the 3 letter agencies.
VPN's can block/masq to webservices, but the agencies capture data from device to provider so every internet request can be logged start to finish.