[DarkMuse]

So choosing the proper VPN can be tricky. You need to understand a few things.

Who is running the VPN?
Do they log?
What are the country laws about information gathering (can the gov't ask for your info)
Is there a strong backing for privacy?
Can the company physically protect your info?

But thats a lot of Google Fu...
https://thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-vp...son-chart/
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[hastybuns]

CyberGhost works well for me!

Do you experience Instability with the good old "Service not reachable" error message?

Nope not as in with the paid version I am using!

[Vultra]

Express and Private Internet Access are the best from what I heard and used.

[mothered]

CyberGhost works well for me!

Do you experience Instability with the good old "Service not reachable" error message?

Nope not as in with the paid version I am using!

It may well be related to the free versions.

I'm going to activate the paid version In the next few days and see how It performs.
Appreciate your feedback.

[Skofos]

you can try this VPN http://www.vpngate.net/en/download.aspx open source ...

[Baddest001]

Using PIA(Private Internet Access) and it has never failed me. Too bad they automatically change ports every few days. So i got CrypticVpn to portforward my rats. Whichever you choose just make sure they don't keep logs.

[Percent]

VPNs are not good for anonymity. It is impossible to know what they actually do with your data. They can say all they want: "We keep no logs, we give you 100% anonymity, we cannot comply with authorities because we do not have anything to give them," etc, without anybody being able to verify their statements. Since you are giving the VPN your data to give to the target server, and since the target server is giving your VPN its data to, in turn, give back to you, the VPN is the middleman here. Thus, this middleman can potentially tamper with the data (just as an ISP could). Just pointing that out.

VPNs are, however, good for security (in places such as coffee shops while using public Internet), and good for hiding things from your ISP (illegal downloading, etc.).

If you were, say, part of a major terrorist organization, and were using a VPN to conceal your doings, the authorities (NSA, FBI, CSIS, etc.) would figure out which VPN you were using, and they would contact the VPN provider (they would likely force the provider to start keeping logs on their service if they already were not, or specifically on you somehow). No matter what VPN services say, no VPN company is going to truly risk their business to protect anybody, especially a terrorist.

[zorrophreak]

Free VPNs I Recommend:
Ehhhhh, I've used VPN Gate but I wouldn't really recommend it or anything free
WindScribe is alright too but as I said above

Paid VPNs I Recommend:
NordVPN
TunnelBear
Mullvad is my personal favorite for commercial VPNs.
Run Your Own (if you can get the right host and in the right location and do some layering, this could be one of your best bets.

VPNs are not good for anonymity. It is impossible to know what they actually do with your data.
VPNs are, however, good for security (in places such as coffee shops while using public Internet), and good for hiding things from your ISP (illegal downloading, etc.).

Correct, they are absolute garbage for anonymity. Sure they can keep a simple site from knowing who you are but most of them, whether they say they do or not do keep logs. Its good as long as you don't do anything to make you a prime target. There are other ways such as hosting your own on a decentralized server and layer it a bit, but if anonymity is your thing, there are better methods.

As for security, they're great unless of course they neglect to use a secure protocol and there are VPNs that have no security and all data can be seen by them which could be far worse than your local coffee shop entrepreneur getting your data. However if everything is good, its great for security and for illegal downloading, and for hiding usage of services like TOR.

[Percent]

Correct, they are absolute garbage for anonymity. Sure they can keep a simple site from knowing who you are but most of them, whether they say they do or not do keep logs. Its good as long as you don't do anything to make you a prime target. There are other ways such as hosting your own on a decentralized server and layer it a bit, but if anonymity is your thing, there are better methods.

As for security, they're great unless of course they neglect to use a secure protocol and there are VPNs that have no security and all data can be seen by them which could be far worse than your local coffee shop entrepreneur getting your data. However if everything is good, its great for security and for illegal downloading, and for hiding usage of services like TOR.

That is very true. There are indeed those odd VPNs which use shitty encryption, or even no encryption at all. I use a free VPN to connect to TOR, which sounds dumb because it is a free VPN, but I just simply want to hide the fact that I'm using TOR network from my ISP.

[zorrophreak]

Correct, they are absolute garbage for anonymity. Sure they can keep a simple site from knowing who you are but most of them, whether they say they do or not do keep logs. Its good as long as you don't do anything to make you a prime target. There are other ways such as hosting your own on a decentralized server and layer it a bit, but if anonymity is your thing, there are better methods.

As for security, they're great unless of course they neglect to use a secure protocol and there are VPNs that have no security and all data can be seen by them which could be far worse than your local coffee shop entrepreneur getting your data. However if everything is good, its great for security and for illegal downloading, and for hiding usage of services like TOR.

That is very true. There are indeed those odd VPNs which use shitty encryption, or even no encryption at all. I use a free VPN to connect to TOR, which sounds dumb because it is a free VPN, but I just simply want to hide the fact that I'm using TOR network from my ISP.

So long as you're just hiding TOR or BitTorrent, you should be fine with anything as long as there is encryption of some sort and the company isn't like a front for a copyright troll. All you really need. However its nice to have something that you can keep doing minimal stuff should your connection to TOR network drop.