Comment by bananapub

> I personally think all of the VPN providers are essentially selling snake oil.

this is incorrect.

nearly all the consumer VPN providers are indeed selling snake oil, and are only useful for obscuring your traffic from ISPs snooping. they keep logs, they have lax security, they sell aggregate whatever to data brokers, they don't give a shit about stopping leaks, etc.

Mullvad isn't, though, and spent loads of effort on ensuring even they can't usefully spy on their users.

> In addition, I think there are better tools for the job. If you want anonymity, use Tor. If you want to bypass geo-restricted content, use Bittorrent.

this is extremely dumb and unimaginative.