If you're worried about data mining while surfing, a way to go might be a BaaS (Browser as a service.) There's a bunch of "like" services that are quite expensive but a few months ago I managed to track down a couple where were affordable for someone who was vaccination in an area with little bandwidth. I can't vouch for any so I won't post any links to them, but I've seen at least one recently as low as $5 usd a month.

I paid for a VPN a few years ago, Windscribe ... I do not recommend, no sooner had a week gone by I found it pointless at any public hot spots in my locale - no real connection - no bandwidth. I wrote a few times to support but got nothing back except shrugs, maybe reinstall etc. When I need to, I now use a ssh tunnel via a server (actually a seedbox that allowed access to cli tools) which was about $5 usd a month. Though a lot more expensive for my needs it beats a ssh server account.