What is your recommended VPN for personal use?

Not VPNGO. It’s one of the many fake VPNs that China either builds or acquires.

My proof is me staring at their Elasticsearch logging server right now, which has no authentication on Port 9200.

Have been trying to reach them for weeks. They are doing some less than honorable things on their network as well that you can if you spend a few minutes studying the logging system.

http://164.52.33.19:9200

EDIT: for those not familiar with Elasticsearch, try expanding the URI paths... http://164.52.33.19:9200/_cat/indices

Mullvad. Does the trick. Cheap. Anonymous. Easy to use. Not too blacklisted. Compatible with my phone.

I use expressvpn. I haven't tried a bunch of others but their sales jargon looked nice and the price was right. I'm happy using it and have had no issues. I travel around the world and has worked in every country I've been in to get around blocks.

I recommend ProtonVPN

I recommend nordVPN or encrypt.me