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What benefit do you believe a VPN provides for you? Are you using it to fake your location for content access or do you believe that the vpn is improving your privacy somehow?
Privacy and pirating
What's funny to me is your username is the name of a (maybe defunct, not sure) VPN service. It was known to be shitty and shady.
Go with a company at least not located in the US. Avoid PIA, they were bought by a shady company. The ones the piracy community tends to trust would be: ProtonVPN, Mullvad, IVPN, AirVPN. Be warned Mullvad recently dropped port forwarding which really hurts torrenting connectivity and speeds. I would try for a provider that continues to allow port forwarding if you're doing any torrent stuff.
Privacy. Books can and are written on the subject. I'll just say try and avoid doing things that link back to you while on the VPN. Don't log into your bank account or email accounts (except those you have registered and only use over VPN) while on a VPN if you can help it. If you sign up for accounts on torrent sites (public or private trackers), use an email not associated with your real identity.