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I had TorGuard for years, but the service just got more and more questionable over time. I stopped using it a handful of years back. I've more recently looked at them again, and their VPN-router product is just a whitelabeled device you can buy elsewhere that they did the trivial install of their VPN software on. Their actual VPN speeds are fine, certainly better than I've heard AirVPNs are, but you either get thrown in the pool of exit points that are all very well identified as malicious VPN exit points (so everyone blocks you), or you pay to upgrade to an individual "residential IP" exit point. That gives you a completely unique exit point so the minimal VPN "blend into the exit point crowd" simply won't exist anymore, and it's questionable what reputation those "residential IPs" might have (I've gotten blacklisted IPs from my direct ISP before, IP reputation is everything).
The service claims it has no/minimal logs, but they also have a privacy policy that seems to allow a good bit of data collection now (if I remember correctly).
If you're trying to use it for geo-unblocking, a residential IP option might work for you. If you're trying to use it to keep your privacy from your ISP, you might very well be trading one bad actor for another. If you're trying to use it for hiding P2P activities it will probably function well,, but I can't speak about how well they'll actually protect your privacy from DMCA requests (if that might be relevant to you).
FWIW, I also recently just found this Techlore table: https://techlore.tech/vpn/ If you click on the "History" column link in particular, you can see they have a pretty sketchy history.