Their terms includes processing data for third party providers, and those (probably banks, payment processors, etc.) are likely to require KYC at some point, otherwise they’re not going to operate with “Freedomia” and will freeze all customers’ funds until KYC is complete. In the worst case scenario “Freedomia” just takes money and doesn’t provide service at all. It also doesn’t contradict the first case. I also think it’s not likely to be the honeypot, because cops/glowies usually provoke people to do shadow things explicitly using their markets, forums, hardware, etc. As from my point of view no point of banking system can be trusted. They all want KYCs.

There have been some solutions but they usually face two problems:

1. Small userbase due to lack of commercials and aggressive attempts to make users stay there as long as possible
2. No advanced matching algorithms due to high costs of their maintenance. No ELO. Then we turn back to the userbase and marketing question: people with completely different interests or “look ranges” see each other all the time and their high expectations and standards make them bored on such apps. I’d be very happy to know any FOSS app that defeated these problems but such issues are pretty much universal.

I wouldn’t advertize anything, but some criterias to filter by: crypto payments available (that’s a good scrutiny even if you don’t pay with it), server location and legal address not in the vault 7 if that matters. The VPN installation itself is pretty easy, you can find guides on the internet or ask AI. I believe, on the official OpenVPN pages there might be a simple guide as well. You just need to use terminal and that’s all.

I use self-hosted on a cloud bought by crypto, but it’s primarily because my relatives living in a country with almost all VPN solutions and protocols blocked, so you always need to figure everything out yourself and try something new.