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Hello, I'm new to all of this. What should one be looking for in a VPN? Is there a certain VPN more people recommend than others? I guess I'm just not really sure where to start here.

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[-] luc891@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

First thing I look at is location of HQ; from this depends how much privacy they can garantee. If it's in the US, that's an immediate nono.

I use Proton (Switzerland bases). Works great.

[-] BermudaHighball@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Proton is a good service, but their years of reluctance to include more anonymous payment methods such as Monero and the inability to register an account from an anonymous IP address without a phone number makes me question the relative benefit of using them as a VPN.

These do not by themselves result in a compromise of anonymity if Proton is trustworthy and the Swiss laws still enable them to disassociate your identity (given via payments) and your account usage, but regulation and governments tend to become stricter rather than looser over time and I would demand more from a service you are entrusting with all your internet traffic.

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