I get the feeling it’s about to become absolutely necessary. Any recommendations as to trusted VPNs, free or cheap?
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ProtonVPN is a Swiss based option (taking it outside the 5-eyes scrutiny) and has proved to be quality so far. It does have a free version but that's very limited, and well worth upgrading if you can. It's the only free option I'd really have any trust in, frankly. (https://protonvpn.com/)
PIA, or Private Internet Access is another paid option that offers a good service and solid feature set. Gobs of servers around the world and I've had good experience with it. Like Proton, they purport not to keep any logs of user activity and there is so far no reason to believe otherwise. (https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/)
Either or both are worth giving a shot.
Don't use PIA, used to use it and but it got bought out by an Isle of Man company late 2019 , a company that use to make adware before rebranding as a privacy company. They also bought an israeli based VPN service that then busted for leaking data. Reddit link
Use Mullvad instead. Swedish based decentralized service that uses FreeVPN IP addresses. Can pay with Bitcoin if you're that extra paranoid.
Thanks, that's good info.