<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sascha_sl</author><text>PIA&amp;#x27;s offer and their policy on retention might be good, but they&amp;#x27;re still a US company and they still tried to smear several other VPN companies (including ProtonVPN).&lt;p&gt;Their clients are also messy memoryleaky electron apps with outdated chromium embedded.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kinkora</author><text>PIA (Private Internet Access) and am a happy customer for 3rd year running.&lt;p&gt;Why do I choose them? Besides the ease of use over multiple platforms, they are the only VPN (I am aware of) that has held up in court that they do not store any logs when asked to handover personal information.&lt;p&gt;Sources:&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;torrentfreak.com&amp;#x2F;private-internet-access-no-logging-claims-proven-true-again-in-court-180606&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;torrentfreak.com&amp;#x2F;private-internet-access-no-logging-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.scribd.com&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;303226103&amp;#x2F;Fake-bomb-threat-arrest&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.scribd.com&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;303226103&amp;#x2F;Fake-bomb-threat-arrest&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?</title><text>And would you recommend it? I&amp;#x27;ve decided to get one and so far my only two requirements seem to be:&lt;p&gt;1. It should work with OpenVPN&lt;p&gt;2. It should support SOCKS5 (Proxy)&lt;p&gt;PIA, Nord, Mullvad, ZorroVPN, ProtonVPN look promising. On the other hand, SigaVPN is based on a not-for-profit model so I was not sure about it. What is your personal preference?</text></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AsyncAwait</author><text>They also donate to FLOSS on a semi-regular basis.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kinkora</author><text>PIA (Private Internet Access) and am a happy customer for 3rd year running.&lt;p&gt;Why do I choose them? Besides the ease of use over multiple platforms, they are the only VPN (I am aware of) that has held up in court that they do not store any logs when asked to handover personal information.&lt;p&gt;Sources:&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;torrentfreak.com&amp;#x2F;private-internet-access-no-logging-claims-proven-true-again-in-court-180606&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;torrentfreak.com&amp;#x2F;private-internet-access-no-logging-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.scribd.com&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;303226103&amp;#x2F;Fake-bomb-threat-arrest&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.scribd.com&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;303226103&amp;#x2F;Fake-bomb-threat-arrest&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?</title><text>And would you recommend it? I&amp;#x27;ve decided to get one and so far my only two requirements seem to be:&lt;p&gt;1. It should work with OpenVPN&lt;p&gt;2. It should support SOCKS5 (Proxy)&lt;p&gt;PIA, Nord, Mullvad, ZorroVPN, ProtonVPN look promising. On the other hand, SigaVPN is based on a not-for-profit model so I was not sure about it. What is your personal preference?</text></story>