I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
From the big public ones like PIA, Nord and Express, I'd go with PIA. It works well, including using openVPN, is reasonably priced and doesn't spend all its money on advertising.
Express and Nord spend huge amounts on ads, meaning that less of your subscription is going into actually making a good service. Express pays "influencers" to shill for it and Nord constantly has clickbait "1/3 off if you act in the next hour" type ads. They're all pretty evil in that respect, so I don't have confidence that any will be particularly honest in the course of their usual operations.
That said, I've had reasonable experiences with any of them.
Nord takes longer to start up for me, but once going allows me to switch geographic location faster. That's useful for testing geolocated feeds and so on, particularly on mobile.
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From the big public ones like PIA, Nord and Express, I'd go with PIA. It works well, including using openVPN, is reasonably priced and doesn't spend all its money on advertising.
Express and Nord spend huge amounts on ads, meaning that less of your subscription is going into actually making a good service. Express pays "influencers" to shill for it and Nord constantly has clickbait "1/3 off if you act in the next hour" type ads. They're all pretty evil in that respect, so I don't have confidence that any will be particularly honest in the course of their usual operations.
That said, I've had reasonable experiences with any of them.
Nord takes longer to start up for me, but once going allows me to switch geographic location faster. That's useful for testing geolocated feeds and so on, particularly on mobile.