Mullvad is less than a fiver a month, depending on the GBP/EUR exchange rate.
It works well nearly all the time - all of my YouTube consumption is done via Mullvad VPN for instance, as the adds bother me far less in
foreign.
I use it to protect my privacy - as much as I reasonably can. All of my pocket fondleslab's traffic is routed via Mullvad. I also don't have Google Play (or associated services installed). All the installed apps are opensource, and the only applications that require PII are using endpoints I control (email, Nextcloud). It takes a bit of time invested up front to getting something resembling a modern mobile experience - the point being using a VPN as a privacy tool is kind of pointless unless other measures are employed too.
What I have found is that a lot of commercial websites are becomming increasingly hostile to VPN users, with some sites refusing to serve any content at all and others insisting human interactive proof is re-submitted with every other HTTP request.
And sadly, as I've not excised on-line shopping from my life completely, nor Zuckerberg's walled garden (
) some of this is fairly futile. Although I've a few different phone numbers and unique email addresses are supplied to each on-line entity
[1] which demands one, which may at least make it harder to munge together data harvested from different sources.
When I'm away, I can VPN into home with all Internet traffic pushed over the VPN connection. This is then in-turn (by default) pushed out via Mullvad.
[1]: When I start receiving unsolicited spam, this makes it easy to see who has leaked my data. It also means assuming the leaker has plugged the whole, I can create a new email alias for them and drop the old one (assuming they allow a change of email address on a user/customer profile)