Proton is a solid choice, they have awesome plans to bundle it with their email services afaik.

But when it comes to "trust" I also trust my grocery store service, but I like to have the ability to just pay with cash and not have them log me by name each time I enter their store and what I'm looking at while in there, its creepy and unethical and we should not support those services.

You should have "How do I know if they are not keeping logs of my IP address connections"

Your IP address does not always relate to you, either because you are using a public wifi(that you can bypass the payment portal thanks to mullvad btw) or on top of tor etc.

Your ISP is also a company, and as I said above you should not share your private information with them if possible and legal in your country.

They also claim:

When a customer connects to a VPN server, the server asks the central service to validate the account number, whether or not the account has any remaining time, if the account has reached its allowed number of connections, and so on. Everything is performed in temporary memory only; none of this information is permanently stored to disk

Which I have to guess is true for all the police raids they had that left the police with 0 evidence.

Ask specific questions, and be nice to others. You won't learn much here otherwise, and if you know everything, why even post?

I do not advocate for mullvad, there are many other companies that are valid choices. That's why I posted this to learn what others use or maybe some that are not even listed by torrentfreaks not to argue about the no-log policy of Mullvad.

Some companies like Mullvad have no way to even keep logs

They do not ask for information that would deanonymize you would be a better way of putting that

I’m not familiar with them, can you explain how you are certain they don’t keep logs?

TL;DR They do not ask you for any info that would deanonymize you & support FOSS projets

None of that answers my question.

I just shared a link where they answer those questions in much more detail that I can do via Lemmy commet replies. If you have specific questions please share them, if someone wants to help you out they will reply, otherwise just read the article and try different VPN providers out yoruself.

edit: formatting replies edit2: Because you edited your reply you should NEVER trust any company with your personal information. You should just NOT give it to them, I do not trust Mullvad or any other "privacy" related company to store data that would deanonymize me, you are proving my point that you do not read what I'm typing or the article I've shared.

• Does not contain non-free js in their website
• Do not depend on google services etc.
  • Also have made major contributions to FOSS projects
• There is no Swedish law applicable to them to share data with their goverment
• They do NOT even allow you to create an account, you just generate a random account number, fill it up with time(monero & bitcoin & cash payment via mail allowed)
• They also offer OpenVPN with RSA-4096 and WireGuard which uses Curve25519 and ChaCha20-Poly1305
• Also awesome DNS protection

There are other VPN providers that offer similar stuff to mullvad, I can keep going for days.

TL;DR They do not ask you for any info that would deanonymize you & support FOSS projects

Eh your bank just knows you pay for a VPN.

Some of them log your payment credentials, why would you want your VPN provider to have access to your real name and banking details? Even if you are not pirating content, its just creepy allowing them to do that to you.

Unless you have somekind of a weird fetish that you enjoy knowing that when you browse the web you are not alone and being watched lol

Some companies like Mullvad have no way to even keep logs

Use firefox with arkenfox, then you wont have to enable DRM to stream videos

Not sure about this site specifivally, but my preferred way of getting my scanned books 'out there' is through myanonamouse.net they are a private community of bookworms and after you host your book there other public sites will pick it up asap. A private torrenting community is the safest way to share something that MIGHT be copyrighted, let the ones that share it publicly worry about the rest.

Link?

Yes, but a vpn is more than enough and much faster for large files

Unless you are playing with the tokens to gain free access, you are not really doing anything that you are not allowed to do.

For news sites I usually first try video downloadhelper addon, then figure what's happening with dev tools. Usually their proprietary players are way worse, but I don't really mess with news sites.