I do have experience in these areas (torrenting for a long time though not at all in the past several years, read TorrentFreak over the years, followed Snowden, etc.), but have never personally bought access to a VPN, even though I feel like I **should ** have been using one since like 2008.
I familiar with most terms and concepts, I know to look for non-FVEY/SSEUR jurisdictions only, strict no-log, network killswitch, pay with cash/crypto, DNS leak protection as a bonus, etc.
I am wondering which service you all have decided to go with.
Private internet access as of right now. They've won court cases proving they dont keep logs and im able to just about max out my bandwidth over their connection. Some huge downsides are that they're a US company and that they try to make you use a crappy custom VPN client instead of just openvpn or wireguard. Plenty good enough for downloading linux isos though imo.
I used to use them but then they got bought by some creepy company so I'm not sure we can trust them any more
Oh shit really? Was thinking of switching to mullvad anyway once this year runs out.
I use PIA as well.