BlackWinnerYoshi wrote on February 15, 2021 at 5:02 PM

Those are the essentials I think that any VPN provider, and any provider of any service, really, should have to be even considered by me:

Tor support - that means having an onion mirror for the VPN site itself; Tor with the VPN itself is not necessary, as Tor is kind of easy to set up, at least on Linux
If it's paid, Monero acceptance - obviously, one might not want to be using some kind of anonymity-hating VPN, like with the point above
No personal data for registrations - that means confirming your phone number is out
Compatibility with standards - in the case of VPNs, that's OpenVPN or possibly WireGuard
No Cloudflare - MitM, especially Clownflare, likes being a honeypot: https://codeberg.org/baobab/cloudflare-tor (clear net only)
not a privacy-related issue, but if the service likes to go down often, it goes out too

Okay, I don't actually pay with Monero or any other cryptocurrency, but other people might, so if I'm going to recommend a service, I want to check that.

mr4channer wrote on February 17, 2021 at 7:13 PM

email verify is out too, just let users register with username and password, and they have to complete non js 8 or more character image captcha. how hard is it to store usernames and passwords in db, prune old/unused accounts that haven't logged in for a while. no log vpn.

BlackWinnerYoshi wrote on February 18, 2021 at 7:10 PM

Actually, e-mail verification is fine for me, as long as it will let me use aliases, like those Riseup has. But yes, I do hate CRAPTCHAs, especially the Goolag one. Sure, I can use Buster (https://github.com/dessant/buster, clear net only), but it doesn't really help when you're continuously using a service that requires it because you're still supporting the cancer.