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What VPN provider do you use?
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this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2023
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If you truly care about privacy, you can go for a provider that asks for no personal details (not even an email if you so desire) and allows you to pay using an anonymous payment method such as Monero. In this scenario it would be incredibly difficult for Mullvad to rat you out even if they wanted to, assuming you only used the VPN for anything but things that could trace back to you (so no logging into services with firstname.lastname@gmail.com.) True privacy and anonymity is difficult to achieve but it is possible, just requires you to pay attention.
True anonymity and privacy is only offline possible.
If you ignored everything that was just said then yeah, sure. Wonder why Tor exists... Ah well, must be just for show.
Keep dreaming little one. You leave traces as soon as you go online even when using Tor and supposedly no logging VPN. In a way those have to log something about you for billing reasons alone.
Your anonymous login data and a "paid until date X" are literally all fields that are necessary for them to have it work. And even if someone can make the connection they can only see that you are using a VPN, not what for because the company doesn’t keep logs about your activity (and besides that doesn’t even have to hand them out). But keep saying "offline is more secure". Yeah, d'uh, then please do us a favor and stay there.