[rhblake]

I've always liked https://mullvad.net/en/ (Swedish company, around since a number of years), especially from a privacy point of view. You never actually enter any personal information when creating an account - no name, no email, no password, no nothing; all you get is a random unique ID. They also claim to keep no logs, point being, "When Swedish law requires us to divulge information about our customers we make sure not to have that information stored, so that we have nothing to give out."

Various means of payment are accepted, including btc, and cash (of any(!) currency) sent by mail. OpenVPN, possible to choose from a number of countries, no limits on speed or data.

If there are other commercial VPN services that don't necessarily require you to give them any personal information (for account purposes), I'd be curious to know. Would be nice to have more alternatives.

[ionised]

Seconded. Mullvad is my current go-to.

I'm still essentially trusting everything they say about no logging (and trusting that it's not a honeypot) and the like but they seem to be the best I've found so far.

[kfreds]

Hi, I'm Fredrik Strömberg, one of Mullvad's founders. I'm a frequent lurker on HN. Thank you both!

Like you said you can trust what we say regarding logging, but you are unable to verify it. Since that's true for all VPN services, may I suggest relying on track record and other signals instead?

Like rhblake said we don't ask for personal information. In fact, we were the first VPN service with that setup, and we were first with bitcoin and cash payments as well.

I'm tempted to provide a list of our security track record, but I have somewhere else to be, so my submission history will have to do :)

[ionised]

Good to hear from you!

Your track record. user reviews and endorsements are what made me choose and stick with Mullvad in the first place.

I definitely haven't been disappointed in any way.