Yep.
Yep.
One of many free ones which works fine for me (try Germany). No card info or payment required:
www.windscribe.com
An excellent blog offering alternatives and user recommendations:
www.saporedicina.com
Suffering also - but not too bad.
You can add google's DNS which might help - but it might also screw up local sites (I can't connect to jd.com china anymore).