Doesn't matter what you use. You can't trust anyone with the privacy of your identity.

Use VPNs for what they were meant for - establishing a virtual private network between machines that are a world apart so they can communicate without eavesdroppers. Examples:

Or for watching region-locked content on Shitflix.

For privacy, only Tor is acceptable.

They were subjected to a search warrant last year but there was no customer data to hand over.

They’ve also since switched to a RAM only VPN infrastructure so data should never be persisted.

I like https://grapheneos.org/ and the feature to use Orbot (Tor) as a default and only VPN.

Never has been, honeypot

Good rule of thumb is not to use a VPN that advertises on billboards in Time Square

It's ok as a vpn provider but I wouldn't trust their no-logs policy. I wonder how they built their reputation as a private vpn since they cannot really prove it.

Umm, I think IVPN is good, they don't keep logs and accept BTC, XMR and i think USDT. They give you a cryptographic key- similarly, like nostr

I can’t speak to the search warrants. I do use Mullvad for mobile VPN, but I am in no way a VPN expert.