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.
What do you people think about Windscribe? I've been using the free data limited version for a while because I dont have high VPN needs.
Solid free plan, one of the 2 free vpn providers I still somewhat trust (other is Proton). They are based in a 14-eyes country though, FWIW.