> barely the first VPN or proxy service trying to make itself oblivious of the traffic it serves That's an understatement. The earliest example that comes to m

> barely the first VPN or proxy service trying to make itself oblivious of the traffic it serves That's an understatement. The earliest example that comes to mind is from over a quarter of a century ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Knowledge_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Knowledge_Systems ZKS even predated Tor as one of the (if not the) first Onion Routing/Pipenet implementations outside the Navy's program. At the time, ZKS earned a lot of mindshare in the tech industry, but unfortunately they were a tad early to the commercial VPN party.