No doubt it is, as are most privacy measures on the internet at the moment unfortunately
Mullvad is the vpn of choice for me too.
While true they do move the trust from the ISP to the VPN, I pay my ISP for service, they keep all kinds of logs and they are transparent about that. I’m sure if authorities wanted their logs they would be handed over. I pay my VPN not to keep logs. It’s that simple I can use which ever VPN I trust the most, or several if that’s what I want to do. Right now I trust Mullard, I used to trust PIA, not any more. I’ve never trusted Verizon.
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I’ve used torguard for a few years, speeds are good and there are lots of servers and locations to choose from. I’m curious about feedback around what people have heard/think about them, as the contact is almost up, so I would be very open to changing things up.
It also depends on what country you live in; Swedish ISPs has a long tradition of refusing to hand over logs (even to the point of going to court over it).
…or being Raided by the Swedish authority’s like Bahnhof ISP back in 2005. After that they now offer users a free VPN (witch leaks like a sive and is pretty much useless, but is enough to state that they can’t hand out any user data).
I prefer Nord VPN when it comes to desktop, even if one Finish access node was compromised. I DO use it with TOR from time to time, even if some exit nodes are in the hands of the US. The likelyhood that they can push Panama to hand out user data, and further down the line my Swedish ISP is a tad far fetched. BTW, don’t forget to spoof your MAC-address.
On my personal getting spied on device (the mobile) I use ProtonVPN and TOR, mainly to piss anyone curious off.
My ISP throttles bittorrent traffic
I’m also curious about torguard, have anyone some feedback about it?
I was considering to subscribe since there is an offer, 50$ for two years
and it should support wireguard:
https://flowerinthenight.com/blog/2020/03/25/torguard-wireguard-ubuntu
There’s an interesting thread as to why wireguard is less secure than openvpn here.
Have to admit I’ve been very satisfied with Air.
Detailed VPN Comparison
https://thatoneprivacysite.net/#detailed-vpn-comparison
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Very interesting comparison, thanks for sharing @cipolla 
The whole “Fourteen eyes” thing is problematic because for OTHER ideological reasons many countries not on that list are countries I don’t want to support. So…
(Also I find the “support gift cards” as even a thing a little strange).
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Switched from Mullvad to ExpressVPN. More expensive, but far better speed, and the Firefox addon is nice too.
Check lilakmonoke’s install guide here: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/installing-expressvpn-on-manjaro-how-to/125345/9
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Interesting…I had the opposite experience…I switched from ExpressVPN to Mullvad…I use the Mullvad app. Wireguard protocol on both my laptop and desktop and am enjoying significantly faster speed…
I wonder if it’s because of location…I’m in the New York City area…In any case, I had a good experience with both VPN’s…Peace
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I’ve found also this list:
ProtonVPN. RARELY use it however. Only use it becaue the upgrade from paid ProtonMail to paid ProtonMail + ProtonVPN was like $1/month. So I figured I’d get it for those RARE cases where I’m about out of hotspot data for the month and so need to be on public wifi.
I Just keep Mullvad running; I see 0% speed reduction; but then again I do not try to pretend I am in a different country so…
I should test that sometime. Since I’ve never used Proton at my home, I can’t say if it hurts bandwidth or not. I should test sometime just to see.
with wireguard or openvpn?
OpenVPN, don’t know for sure if ProtonVPN supports WireGuard yet (they may, I’ve never looked into it).
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