Exactly this. For non-state actors my "data" is gone. You'd need a warrant to get data from my VPS provider, so for most of the common threats I'm pretty anony

Exactly this. For non-state actors my "data" is gone. You'd need a warrant to get data from my VPS provider, so for most of the common threats I'm pretty anonymous to non-state actors. Maybe you don't want your employer to see everything you search? Interestingly for programmers the ssh-tunnel is perfectly explainable, especially if you do most of your browsing in the clearnet, and only some over your ssh-tunnel. If your threat model includes state actors (doing something illegal hmmmm?) then I would recommend doing something a bit different, but for what most people are using services like Nord for ssh + vps should be fine. EDIT: If yall are torrenting then just get a 10$/mo seedbox, you'll thank me later.