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ISPs are regulated, and operate in the country I live in. They know my real identity, bill me regularly, and have (IMHO) a pretty strong incentive to violate my
by azalemeth 6y ago
ISPs are regulated, and operate in the country I live in. They know my real identity, bill me regularly, and have (IMHO) a pretty strong incentive to violate my privacy -- either for commercial purposes, or by law. VPNs are not necessarily in my jurisdiction, exist in a highly competitive space, and live or die by their reputation for privacy. You can buy, e.g., time on Mullvad by mailing cash in the post -- or via a whole string of privacy-preserving altcoins. It doesn't get more anonymous than that.
- wycy 6y agoFair enough, that rationale actually makes sense in the context of that sort of VPN. The sorts of VPNs I don't trust are those like Nord VPN or one of the others with huge advertising budgets.
- falcolas 6y agoBut by the time they die, they've already compromised you. And even the strongest claims of privacy have been shown time and again to be outright lies. > It doesn't get more anonymous than that. Yes, it does. TOR. Those VPNs? They've got your source IP, which as people are enjoying pointing out is almost as good as an identity. Not much anonymity there.