Its a Swiss one, so compared to some sites its probably in French out of box. Has a good reputation, located in country that doesn't take much bullshit from EU or given government (Albeit some of it is good, this is not).

Also cares more about privacy than most other countries globally (if folks grokked what "numbered account" meant then there wouldn't be so much baseless hate about how "Swiss took all jewish and nazi money and profit from it till today and that's core of their prosperity".

Couldn't be further from truth, I live here and watch these matters closely from both inside and outside perspectives.

Because this VPN provider tweeted about it.

I’d guess many did, and this is just the one being reported on

Likely because it's one of the few VPNs with a ~reliable free tier