I've been thinking about using one, but I'm not sure which ones are good and which ones are compromised.
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I've used Proton and Mullvad.
Proton was fine except their business model. They only have a subscription and if you prepay and just let it lapse when you come back they charge you for the unused time. Example, you pay a month, let it lapse, come back after skipping a month -- they want you to pay for 3 months. If you have any other Proton services you pay for they hold these hostage to make you pay for your 'delinquent' VPN time. You have to log in and cancel to stop it accruing 'delinquent' time.
Mullvad on the other hand your account is just a random number. You can pay with credit, cash, crypto and any number of months at a time.
Performance-wise they were about the same, max ~10-30 MiB torrent on gigabit, both can be used on multiple devices at once. Proton had more servers in more countries, which was occasionally useful because some countries like S Korea seem to commonly have region blocks (peers that won't connect outside of KR).
Overall I like Mullvad a lot more.