[Nextgrid]

> On the other hand doesn't that defeat the purpose of the privacy thing?

It depends - a lot of the privacy invasions go beyond just the IP address and also include browser fingerprints and on-page activity collected by malicious Javascript - these third-party frontends defeat that.

[3np]

All (most?) of them also trivially supports using a proxy so you can selectively route them through Tor or some other proxy or VPN.

[orblivion]

Heh, then who hosts that proxy? And might you want to self-host that if it gets overloaded? TOR of course makes sense here though.