If you want to have any hope of anonymity when accessing the internet, use Tor. Don't use a single-hop proxy. Even if you assume that the VPN provider is trustw

If you want to have any hope of anonymity when accessing the internet, use Tor. Don't use a single-hop proxy. Even if you assume that the VPN provider is trustworthy and won't roll over when they're handed an NSL (a questionable assumption), intelligence agencies can just as easily break into all the servers (owned by a single party) and log the traffic themselves. Personally, I would be surprised if they haven't already done this for some providers -- why wouldn't they?