With a vpn you are entrusting your privacy to a third party, it will never be a good option.
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Yes you are right but you could use a vps backend with zerotier or wiregard. Or use a nolog vpn as mullvad.
Is Zerotier materially better?
My first exposure to ZeroTier was as a Raspiblitz plugin. I’m too in the weeds on other things to really dig into it. Choosing to run over TOR in absence of wanting to take on yet another tech service provider. But I’m genuinely curious what others have experienced?