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There are only three good ones, in no particular order:
Any other VPN used is a mistake.
I've used AirVPN for over a year now. No complaints. Mullvad stopped port forwarding so had to swap. Recently moved email to proton so might move VPN over soon too.
There's a reason why I didn't mention Air instead of those three I named:
So which one of these criterias are not met by AirVPN?
I think it’s good idea to not put all your eggs in one basket, so having a different vpn provider from your email would be safer. Up to you though.
This is something else that crossed my mind. Not like the $20 a year or whatever is going to break my bank paying separately....
AzireVPN is the best in my opinion
I've never heard about it. I just took a look, and it's from the Malwarebytes guys. My issue with it is that it's proprietary, save for a lone BASH script that happened to be under GPL-2.0, which allows for tivoization.
They're Swedish, but the company was bought by Malwarebytes later on
What piece of software are you talking about ?