I really need to get on a VPN... looking for recommendations. bonus points for affordable family plan so my girlfriend can use it too.
NordVPN? Private Internet Access? others?

Proton

Why exactly do you need a VPN? They give most people a false sense of anonymity. The VPN gateway could be logging all your traffic. You really don't know.

If you really want a VPN you can trust, buy a VM in a GDPR country and just run your own. OpenVPN and strongSwan are both free and open source.

I set up my Pi to run openvpn and use dynamic DNS. I trust that more than any paid VPN service. I only really use it when I'm on public wifi which isnt too often...but works great (plus I have pihole).

@BobbyTables I want to stream region locked content online.

@mjones44 oooooh gotcha

ProtonVPN

PIA, always and forever PIA
PiVPN for fun site project

Self-hosted, so you know there are no logs.

Mullvad! Can even pay on cash and they literally don't require any information from you.

@filthyranter doesn't allow me to watch region-locked content tho

@ScribeOfGoD yeah I ended up going with PIA, I really like it so far but I've only had it for a day so we'll see what's up

@filthyranter @djsumdog How can you trust you server provider then? They can keep and sell logs too. I think a good and trustworthy VPN provider is a better choice, because even if their server provider keeps logs, they don't know it is you. They only knows it is someone using VPN.

Also I don’t think GDPR matters at all if government want to spy on you.

@lamka02sk yeah this is accurate imo. also PIA promises to keep no logs, ever.