It gets my goat that people think it’s a good option. There are plenty of articles explaining some of the many issues with it, but a few are:
- It’s run by anti-LGBTQ+ crypto bros.
- It has ads right out of the box.
- It collected donations towards people who never signed up for them - then held them to ransom in exchange for the kind of information you should never share on the Internet.
- They’re a for-profit advertising company. “Privacy-centric” my elbow.
I don’t know how it is in your region, but where I live (the US), streaming pirated content is perfectly legal. As long as you aren’t distributing it, you’re not actually violating any laws. The only thing a free VPN is good for is masking your location so that you can get around porn bans and region locks