> I religiously route all my traffic through a VPN that I own and control. But then you are losing the anonymizing effect of the VPN. If you are doing somethi

> I religiously route all my traffic through a VPN that I own and control. But then you are losing the anonymizing effect of the VPN. If you are doing something illegal this is obviously bad but I guess it otherwise doesn't really matter. Companies like Mullvad have tens of thousands of users which means that the actions of one VPN IP address can not be attributed to just one person. You're just transferring the ability to surveil you from your ISP to whoever hosts your VPN server.