Best country to VPN to?

The VPN provider I use has servers in multiple countries. I was wondering if privacy laws would make it better to VPN to some countries over others when pirating.

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As long as your VPN provider is a proven no-logger, just go with the best performance.
But if you really want to pick countries, Eastern Europe, Italy and Switzerland just to name a few. If you are in the US I wouldn’t be crossing the pond with my VPN but that’s up to you.
- Never heard Italy before. Do they have stricter laws than EU in general?
  
  Italy is a member of the "14 eyes", so not a good choice.
  
  Maybe less enforcement, that would be my guess
  
  I’ve heard from Italian friends that been doing it for ever and nothing happened.
- If you are in US probably any latin country except Mexico, Puerto Rico and Panama should be OK.
  
  Why do people keep saying that Puerto Rico is a country?!
  Third time this year.
  
  Curious what it is about those countries that would cause you to advise against using them?
- Why wouldn't you be crossing the pond for that? Legal reasons? Latency reasons?
  
  Because what I said in the first paragraph. If your provider is not a proven no-logger, get another one.

I’m not entirely sure on the absolute best, but I always use Switzerland. I believe they have extremely strong privacy laws that protect individual privacy and I believe they have a relaxed view on downloading so long as it is solely for personal use, though uploading / sharing torrenting is still very much disallowed.
- ... so that's why our servers are always so fucking slow.
  
  Tbf it’s often the first one it grabs when I click quick connect.

I use ProtonVPN's Secure Core. Their entry nodes are in privacy-friendly countries — Switzerland, Iceland, or Sweden — and exit nodes can be to any of their VPN servers in dozens of countries around the world. It's a double hop which increases latency slightly, but I don't real-time game on this configuration.
https://protonvpn.com/features/secure-core

If you are in the US, stick with US servers on a no-log VPN. Crossing the border with your traffic allows agencies to collect way more data.
- What no-log VPNs are out there in the U.S.? Anything similar to Mullvad?
  
  I don't mean US based, I mean US servers. Mullvad has US servers.
  Can't really comment on 14-eyes, but 100% avoid the US, UK, AU, NZ, and maybe CA based companies. I personally don't use Mullvad anymore since they stopped supporting port forwarding, but it's an otherwise great VPN.
  
  PIA is a proven no-logger. They are also fast as hell.

from a meme that is in my head in Bulgaria piracy is legal not sure if it's the mandella affect or a lie but consider Bulgaria
- I always connect to Sofia because I also remember that 'fact' lol

depends. anything illegal/political extremist shoot for something outside of the fourteen eyes.

Maybe try the smallest country that borders the country that sells Vytautas mineral water?
Spoiler alert: it's Latvia.

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