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Well, yes, TOR is also an option. And it does have the benefit of being free. But in my experience, it's much slower. You also end up with a somewhat random final TOR node that could be in any state or any country, which can cause websites to serve you a page in languages you don't understand ... or, sometimes, refuse to load at all. For example, if your exit node is in a US state with a porn ban, some porn sites will refuse to load anything useful for you. Sometimes there's workarounds for that part, but it's always quite slow. Maybe okay for images if you've got patience, but trying to download or stream videos (or gifs) through TOR is pretty painful in my experience.
With a (good) VPN, you can be protected from ISP spying while still having good, usable internet speed, where things like streaming videos are still practical. And you can (usually) choose where you want your VPN server to be located, so you can avoid those pesky geo-locking issues.
I'm looking into VPNs today actually. I'm considering Mullvad but I'm hesitant to buy anything that I've seen ads for, any good suggestions?
The best for privacy are definitely mullvad and proton vpn. Nordvpn is the best for p2p/pirating (...not that I condone that...), but not as solid privacy wise. I know that nord and proton have excellent Linux support, idk about mullvad in that respect though.
Honestly though, if you're just doing this for privacy concerns you might as well just use something like quad9 DNS – for free. VPNs are only really useful faking you're location or pirating. Not so much for privacy or security. Quad9 + librewolf is king there.
Mullvad on Linux works great!
... except for it being built on electron so it's a 300MB install.
Hmm yeah that doesn’t bother me. I guess you could technically avoid the GUI and control it via the terminal though ?