Well, Mullvad's fall from grace was certainly fast. And I seem to recall that Proton had a moment too, a while back.

What's the current go-to recommendation for VPNs/proxies, for people who don't want to run their own?

@neil there are NO GOOD ONES!
- There never were any to begin with!
https://web.archive.org/web/20220112020000/https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/1085614812581715968

AFAIK @monocles scrapped the Idea of doing a #VPN because of the way most just lazily rebrand some other corpo's white-label thing.
- Use @torproject / #TorBrowser instead…

Personally, I use @freifunk instead…

thaddeus e. grugq on Twitter

“I’m gonna tell you a secret about “logless VPNs” — they don’t exist. Noone is going to risk jail for your $5/mo https://t.co/Q2aOQJkG4g”

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@kkarhan @neil yes there are, windscribe and calyx!
calyx institute is pretty well trusted
and windscribe has a pretty good record too
you wouldn't know either ofc, because neither advertises themselves, lol

@6 @neil I heard of @calyxinstitute

I remembered #AirVPN for allowing #OpenVPN over @torproject / #Tor, which helps working around sites that block Tor...

Otherwise I don't recommend usong a #VPN *UNLESS YOU ABSOLUTELY CANNOT USE ANYTHIBG ELSE!*

https://mastodon.social/@kkarhan/116822779443436437

#DontBlockTor