Riseup offers a VPN for free which you can support with donations. Personally I use PIA, which is for-profit but does give some support to good projects.
Their beta VPN client (which is quite stable for beta) can be downloaded at https://riseup.net/en/vpn/betatest . You don't need a Riseup Account to use their VPN (the exception is Riseup Red VPN (OpenVPN instead of Bitmask))
Thanks so much.
I haven't heard of RiseUp before but, from a cursory search, it looks like they do just what I like.
Will install it and check it out.
For anyone else interested -- https://riseup.net/en/vpn
And btw, for anyone wanting info about choosing the right VPN, I just found this on Reddit. Absolutely excellent information that covers every possible question.
>you're IP address is an insignificant identifier
Yeah it's so insignificant that pretty much all discussion boards use it to ban people...
Of course a VPN is worth it. https://riseup.net/en/vpn/why-is-needed