| > How about you provide proof that your ISP doesn't store your stuff, as you claimed? > That's not how it works. Yes, it is. GDPR forces them to inform me about this, should I ask them. My ISP was forced by the government to log metadata as all Dutch ISPs were because the Dutch government demanded this, by law. However a court case mid '10s in European courts forced them to stop citing human rights. > ISP data is attached to your damn real name. There is nothing worse. A VPN would first have to rat you out to the ISP, which at least creates another step. You can do nothing, real name wise, when you have my public IPv4. Not in the least because I have DHCP, and don't run any services whatsoever. > It is becoming an issue in more and more places. And do you want to risk it? If Tor works for you, great. But it is blocked much more often than VPNs are. Everyone will have to think for themselves in their threat assessment. However, VPNs add an additional threat to your threat assessment. Is that worth it? Is it worth it that they run a VPN in some datacenter on a KVM or VPS they don't even own? > Stop it. I didn't recommend ANY paid VPN at all. I myself use only free ones. Even worse, TANSTAAFL. I actually have a paid VPN which I use for copyright infringement related things (which is civil court). Yes, there it adds an additional layer. For police, not so much, and I would never route all my traffic to it... |