With Mullvad disabling port forwarding and the general problematic VPN services it was super helpful to rely on some information about VPNs on reddit to discovered services like Mullvad. Now it seems to be down to ProtonVPN, AirVPN and IVPN. But that information is not to be found here so far.
And then there is the whole world of seedboxes unbeknownst to me, especially regarding practical anonymity with payment processors.
The problem with i2p is that it is veeeeeeeeery slooooooooow, first because of garlic routing, and the whole network being p2p, second because there aren’t many people using it and thus not too many peers you can leech from. I have use i2p a couple of years ago, and downloading a movie can take you like a week or so.