Hey sorry I totally forgot to come back to this. The privacytools website has some good recommendations, and I think their criteria for choosing providers make a lot of sense. I personally use Mullvad because I like that it supports wireguard, and their clients are robust and easy to use. Haven't tried Nord myself so I can't say. However according to that privacytools site Nord has had 2 security breaches in 2019 and 2020 respectively which is not a good look.
I wouldn't recommend using a free vpn. Like the other commenter said, you're paying to use their hardware. That means that being a vpn provider will always incur ongoing costs, in the form of renting servers/rackspace in a datacenter. This is not sustainable unless they are collecting revenue, and if they're not being paid by their users, then you have to wonder how they're making their money.
Hey sorry I totally forgot to come back to this. The privacytools website has some good recommendations, and I think their criteria for choosing providers make a lot of sense. I personally use Mullvad because I like that it supports wireguard, and their clients are robust and easy to use. Haven't tried Nord myself so I can't say. However according to that privacytools site Nord has had 2 security breaches in 2019 and 2020 respectively which is not a good look.
I wouldn't recommend using a free vpn. Like the other commenter said, you're paying to use their hardware. That means that being a vpn provider will always incur ongoing costs, in the form of renting servers/rackspace in a datacenter. This is not sustainable unless they are collecting revenue, and if they're not being paid by their users, then you have to wonder how they're making their money.