08-01-2019, 01:10 PMkingston Wrote: Before buying a VPN plan please check about the country where the particular company is incorporated in. You are not safe if that country is USA or Canada, no matter what they are saying. Same applies for many other countries who signed a special agreement with US intelligence (e.g. read about so called 14 Eyes). Which includes Norway, UK and several others. Also avoid European countries in general. There are also issues with certain VPN services that use insecure encryption that is vulnerable to eavesdropping. Last but not least - make sure that your kill switch is on. In most VPN clients it is off by default, even if the provider supports kill switching.
One of just a few VPNs that I can recommend is NordVPN.
Well said. I mean all of the 14 eyes countries agreement is only meaningful if you are doing something illegal like torrenting or buying/downloading forbidden stuff.
if your main use of VPN is for protection or streaming sites, you SHOULD be fine. The authorities do not care if you access UK Netflix content or something similar.