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by tylerjd 3267 days ago
It depends on your threat model. Are you just wanting to get around your ISP selling your personal data and (in the future) slowing down your internet to certain sites? Host a VPS at DO or Linode or AWS (though you'll look a lot like a bot). This way is also useful for hosting things at your house, but have them look and act as if they are hosted in your provider's DC.

Are you trying to partially anonymize yourself on the internet and download Linux ISOs? Use a provider like PIA. The benefit of those is you're going to (probably) be connected to a node with dozens of others, certain entities would be dissuaded from tracking you, and cease and desist letters stop at PIA and never make it to you, as they don't maintain logs.

If you really want to be anonymous and not be able to be tracked by even governments, TOR is really your only option.

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Mostly I just want to get around ISP tracking. In that case I might just look into this solution and host on AWS.

> partially anonymize yourself on the internet and download Linux ISOs...cease and desist letters stop at PIA

You can get cease and desist orders for downloading Linux ISOs?

It was a euphemism, though I don't know how much RedHat would like you swinging around a binary build of RHEL, but IANAL
'Downloading Linux ISOs' is basically 'torrenting stuff illegally'