Except most providers worth their salt will require your credit card/paypal for a subscription. This adds another potential loophole for de-anonymization. At le

Except most providers worth their salt will require your credit card/paypal for a subscription. This adds another potential loophole for de-anonymization. At least with Mullvad you can pay in crypto or even mail them cash. Though it all depends on what you want to achieve I'd say a trusted VPN is much better than a VPS, esp one located in US or any of the five eyes countries.