[shad0wca7]

Now is an excellent time to set up a custom home router (I'm thinking pfsense to send all traffic through a VPN).

The excuse of "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" is not only intellectually feeble; it permits a gradual erosion of civil liberties that can easily find the average citizen on the wrong side of the law should any agency casually find it convenient for them to be so. It is a snowball.

On that note. What VPN services are recommended and has anyone got some good guides to this?

[vixen99]

Nothing to hide? Notwithstanding that Cardinal Richelieu died in 1642, his threat should be wheeled out regularly:

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him".

[pYQAJ6Zm]

I suggest AirVPN (no affiliation). I’ve been using it for more than a year, and it’s reliable, with plenty of servers and good speeds. If I am not mistaken, it’s operated from Italy.

Another option is to rent a VPS/dedicated server somewhere outside the UK, with decent bandwidth and data cap, and configure your own VPN between your systems, using the rented server as the internet gateway.

[jbg_]

To avoid this particular issue, it should be sufficient to rent a server outside of the UK and use OpenVPN. Maybe you even already have one.

[shad0wca7]

What would the benefits of this be over a dedicated VPN service?

[jmkni]

Doesn't mean jack if you are logged into Chrome