Because of people being driven away from proton I have been suggesting it more than usual, but the simplest and most correct answer if you value your own safety is mullvad.

The service speaks for itself and there is nothing that compares. Several people have replied to me when I suggest mullvad saying “what about one of the founders donations to a Swedish far right political party?” so rather than extol the many virtues of literally the best vpn service out there I will spend time explaining the thing they’re talking about.

There is a party in Sweden called orebro. It is a small political party based in the city of orebro and has varied platforms. One is a policy called remigration which broadly refers to deporting non ethnically Swedish people from the country. I am tiptoeing around explicitly calling this a far right policy because frankly Europe as a whole is trending against migration so it may reflect window shifting more than goose stepping and I am a communist and no communist nation in history has ever operated on open borders however the word remigration as a description of their platform is, let’s just say an ethnically charged dogwhistle.

The party’s other platforms are what could be called left or even schizophrenic and someone described it as “Marxist revisionist” and that’s probably true.

One of the two founders of mullvad, Daniel berntsson, donated half a million kronor to orebro.

Do you consider that policy right wing? Is it bad enough to outweigh the other platforms of the orebro party? What portion of the half million kronor donation would you consider to be going to that platform as opposed to the party’s many other platforms? What portion of that donation comes from berntssons stake in mullvad? What portion of your five dollars a month supported the party or if you take a more nuanced view, that particular policy? Is it even possible to ethically consume services under capitalism? When you pass on will the portion of this purchase that can be traced to that policy by Anubis’ accounting staff make your soul heavier than a feather?

Only you can answer those questions. I would recommend you instead answer the following question: is that enough to cause you to accept a worse quality and more unsafe service?

If it is, a similar but not equivalent service is ivpn, but as a current user of their service it is more complex, easier to screw up and has not been tested to the extent of mullvad.