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by Cantbekhan 2060 days ago
There are a few VPN services (about 3) that are recommended by both privacytools.io (https://www.privacytools.io/providers/vpn/) and the freedom of the press foundation (https://freedom.press/training/choosing-a-vpn/).

Some accept anonymous cash payments like mullvad and do not require any information.

Everyone here probably knows VPNs are not an all-in solution for privacy nor security but they're certainly a good added layer to add and most likely have better privacy standards than most ISPs.

A person more concerned about privacy should just add one or more layers above/below the VPN ... like ISP > VPN > Tor for instance at the price of substantially lower performance ...

Or you could do the opposite with a cash accepting VPN such as Mullvad ... and only connect to them using ISP > Tor > VPN which would also provide a decent layer that would avoid the massive "maicious high risk flagging" of Tor Exit nodes everywhere while preventing the VPN provider from knowing your IP. You certainly have to hit less captchas with VPNs than with Tor ...

There are also quite a few VPN/VPS providers accepting Monero that can be used and paid for "anonymously" for adding more layers.

If you live in a large city with a decent view on places offering free legal public wifi, you could also buy a long range Wifi Directionnal Antenna and USB Wifi adapter to add such layer while remaining at home and avoid having to move to such places. Mac address randomization is trivial and integrated in most OSes now. Again it's not perfect but it's an added "convenient" layer not requiring physical moving.