Our right to secrecy comes from our ability to choose not to give away our secret information in the first place. The ultimate standard for privacy tools and techniques are ones that meet this standard of protection, that require no trust at all.
There is no technology that meets this standard for IP addresses. At least Tor has decentralized trust, allowing for some compromised actors without allowing IP information to be correllated with website choice. However VPNs don't meet this standard. A VPN requires centralized trust, just like a raw internet provider or a regular proxy service.
It doesn't matter how "trustworthy" an actor seems to you personally and emotionally; the fact that they can correllate your IP address at all, and the fact that trust is required in the first place is a red mark, and makes the service inferior to what it ought to be.
Scoundrel
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2024-10-04 11:51:46
in reply to nevent1q…gul5
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