Hello all,
I sometimes read this forum. I have an opinion-based question which you all seem to like to get sorted (amongst your various other favoured pastimes). After reading articles like the one from the link below, I see a lot of calls in the comments to start using a vpn full time. That's fine I suppose, but the question is, which one? All of the research I have tried to do on the subject mostly comes up with the vpns or their proxies doing adver-market-"journalism". Most of the best-of lists are doing things which immediately strike me as suspicious, such as offering deals to sign up with the vpn that they just so happen to be recommending as their #1 pick.
The names that keep showing up in the lists and articles I have read are: NordVPN, ExpressVPN, PureVPN, VyprVPN and IPVanish. I am leaning towards Nord, but I just don't know if I can trust my research or not.
Does anyone have any experience with those VPNs, or better ones? I am not looking to do anything illegal, so I don't particularly care if they log or not (unless, of course, they decide to start selling to advertisers too). But it creeps me out that ISPs are pushing to be able to sell my internet traffic logs to advertisers (not that I would ever see it anyway, as I use ublock, ghostery, noscript, and privacybadger, it's the principle of the thing. And no, I am not inclined to get into a debate with anyone about the "ethics" of using an ad-blocker. My browser on my computer, than I own and paid for = my rules. You are welcome to send the content, I am disinclined to display it on my end).
I am happy to pay for a quality VPN, up to €115/$120 per year. If I am paying though, I want unlimited speed, no throttling, and end-to-end security (transport and message layer along with OpenVPN standards for the tunneling). I am looking for tried-and-true, not startups, and nothing run from someone's garage. Safety in numbers and all that, right?
Help?