Note that I'm not a big proponent of current consumer VPN products. They're useful for some things, but I think people are generally confused about what those t

Note that I'm not a big proponent of current consumer VPN products. They're useful for some things, but I think people are generally confused about what those things are. But on a technical level, these companies are well-positioned to facilitate self-hosting. That's what I'm interested in. The egress benefits are fairly orthogonal to that as far as I'm concerned. That said, what makes you think ISPs are less incentivized than VPNs to sell your data? There are VPN companies that have "proven" in court that they are unable to provide logs of user activity. That earns way more of my trust than I'd give any ISP. > IP addresses are not even really used anymore for fingerprinting IPs are used by ISPs for issuing DMCA emails. > It sounds like you're trying to advocate for using VPNs for anonymity I'm not. It's all about what you're trying to hide from whom. True anonymity is extreme and comes at a high cost in terms of performance.