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personally, I use Windscribe as they have a pretty good free tier and were proven no-logs in court. I've tried AirVPN, Mullvad, and ProtonVPN. I'd personally use Proton as it has port forwarding support (if you need to seed Linux ISOs;)) and a clean ui, but if you just want something that works Mullvad is great. AirVPN is a little pricey for me, but it does what Proton fails to improve on.
 


I use Windscribe as they have a pretty good free tier and were proven no-logs in court.

They've also been independently audited on a regular basis.

(I pay for Windscribe, but I only need a VPN for specific tasks.)

There's also Proton VPN. They're audited as well, plus they're Proton -- a well-trusted entity. They have a free tier, which is limited in the number of endpoints, but not limited in bandwidth. Their free tier is solid.

As far as I know, they're the only audited, free, and unlimited VPN out there. They even have a Linux client so that you can send all of your traffic through them. I don't normally bother with that. In my case, I only bother with the browser extensions.

The only reason I use a VPN is to watch some racing content that's geo-restricted, and I have no reasonable way to access it legally. I usually joke about it with the IMSA representatives. They do not seem to mind that I use a VPN. I'm also not alone in using a VPN.

Oh... I also have it set up so that I can use my own network as a VPN. I use a combination of dynamic DNS and OpenVPN, or I'll just forward my X session over SSH for simplicity. I may also just use a remote desktop client. Those are handy and enable me to look like I'm at home, and/or just let me remotely use my computers.
 
You can encrypt DNS queries without using a VPN. I use 9.9.9.9, but there are others. All DNS queries are encrypted, and no one can see what sites are being requested.
 


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