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How does that have to do with anything VPN? You think they will send swarms of soldiers your way because you've downloaded House of the Dragon? It's a military alliance, you know… Germany isn't toxic at all. We don't have a data retention law in violation of EU legislation like France or Italy. Any server you can connect to with AirVPN is safe in that regard, and AirVPN rejected adding servers in such countries on multiple occasions, and even withdrew flags because of legistation change to the disadvantage of AirVPN in the past. I wouldn't say it's completely irrelevant – your other points are some of the regularly quoted recommendations – but VPN usage should be done use case-oriented. Two examples: For torrents, throughput is everything, so using a server in the same or a neighbor country can be a good starting point. I'd opt for the neighbor country first: That way, different legislations come into play as well. If your use case is getting through geolocation blocks, then trying a server in the country to which the content is limited is best. And so on, and so on. When torrenting, Kitalpha (CH) maxes out my connection. I determined this by a more or less simple technical detail. Added bonus: Not the same legislation, not even EU one. When watching certain Japanese media, I connect to the US because there is noticeably much more content available and licensed there than you can find in any EU country.

What are the actual reasons for censorship?