Its a piece but you have to change your habits or its useless. Create different identities and habits for them
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Browser fingerprinting and device fingerprinting are good to think about as well. A hell to get away from 
No VPN fixes it! Have you been logged in to Facebook, Google and so on. You’re screwed! 
I can recommend OVPN and Mullvad.
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These are the ones I also recommend. I’ve had them all. OVPN some year, Mullvad two years before. Now I’m in my second year with ProtonVPN.
Can recommend ProtonVPN as well!
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AirVPN is one of the best, if you search a non logging vpn.
Most VPNs are logging.
This VPNs are not logging:
AirVPN
OVPN
Perfect-Privacy
Can recommend them all, ovpn got also n wireguard protocol. but for safety openvpn is better.
NordVPN is logging for sure.
And i would never trust a free vpn. How they pay the servers? For nothing? Literally they just use your data and sell it.
Browserfingerprinting and Device Fingerprinting is the next thing.
And for mobile i use my own wireguard vpn, with pihole in.
Take a watch on this. Very easy and fast.
Im getting nearly 800 Mbits Download.
Searching non logging is kinda funny considering its not hard for any of these companies to manipulate reviews or results
Tbh the truth of any VPN is you can’t prove they’re not lying and just need to decide how much you want to trust them and realize you shouldn’t.
If privacy is your concern you need to treat any non local network as a threat and 100% untrustworthy. Never assume you can trust any provider, figure out your threat model, and act accordingly online
It depends what you are trying to prevent/protect. Thinking that a VPN is a universal shield is just as flawed as thinking it is useless.
A few things a good VPN can help with:
- Provide access to geo restricted resources
- Protect from ISP snooping
- Provide a layer of encryption over an unencrypted connection
- Mask your IP address/physical location
In all those cases, it is serving as protection from casual threats. If you are searching for true anonymity you need a multi-layered approach and you need to make some sacrifices as to what you do and don’t do online.
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Exactly, that was my point. Its not that VPNs are useless but thinking of them as a magic privacy bullet is plain not true
If privacy is a concern and you just use a VPN but don’t change how you use the internet for that purpose its useless
Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. Can still easily track you through a VPN based on behavior alone
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I have been reading a lot about this lately… and found something interesting…
Not sure how much is the correct percentage, some people say about 30%, others 80%, but I found that a lot of the VPN providers are owned by people that live in a country in which the data protection and privacy are not respected at all… Whatever the government asks, they must provide.
I can’t say off course what really happens, but I wouldn’t hire a service from these companies. I won’t speak directly which country I’m referring too to avoid political debate. Don’t ASK!
many of them are within the 14 eyes alliance yes and they must comply with a warrant if they have data to give yes
Yeah, that’s correct, but 14 eyes or 5 eyes is one thing, what I said is different.
What I suggested is in case you are searching for a VPN service, check who owns it.
A lot of these companies hide this information.
And you can’t compare 14 eyes spying on you with what supposedly happens in the companies that reside in a place in which they don’t respect nothing about the individual privacy, I’ll stop here…
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Thank you.
Pudge
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You are welcome.
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I chose ExpressVPN because it’s outside both the 5 eyes and the 14 eyes, which is a good layer of reassurance. 
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I am using Trust.Zone since now 4 years. Quite happy with it.
Below a screenshot from the VPN comparaison site posted in a previous post above.
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I’ve been using ExpressVPN and on Windows I use exitlag for my games. I’ve been thinking of trying out protonVPN. Anyone has any experience with it to share?
I’ve had excellent experience with AirVPN
Made myself a private VPN server with Wireguard.
Still, there is the DNS issue. Linode can give to the legal system the logs.
Still, it is your to have, yours to maintain.
Started using Proton’s free service recently and apart from some minor connection drops, am quite pleased with it. It is hard to fault a service that is barely limiting its free users.
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Tried the free service and thought yes, I will go with the paid package. My speed dropped to something so low that it was unusable. At least the refunding me my money.