Is it really? I’d say an alternative is generally just “another option that has (more or less) the same features”. Better isn’t really implied, as that’s someone’s subjective opinion.

Sounds like a pretty interesting collection to me!

In Germany the government now fines you for piracy, using a common VPN isn’t enough anymore.

Why isn’t a common zero-logs VPN enough? How would the government know? Encrypted VPN traffic can’t be decrypted, at least until we have quantum computers, right?