[pdimitar]

The ability to trace back is way too easy to achieve for bullies (publisher mafia, copyright holders, state agencies with geopolitical interests etc).

Stuff like NNCP might help.

The complete lack of interest in developing a truly anonymous internet is worrying.

Another thing that is sorely missing is the ease of use of the web-of-trust networks. Me and a friend on the other side of the globe meet up physically, exchange keys, then put them in our routers / home servers and suddenly we have access to each other's NAS and local networks, for example.

For now, nobody is working seriously on nothing like that. That's not good at all.

[mixedCase]

I named both Tor and I2P.

As for your web-of-trust thing, what's missing from a VPN solution?

[pdimitar]

Full anonymity from everyone along the way.

I got nothing to hide yet I dislike the idea of my traffic being analyzed.

VPN is just from point A (me) to point B (VPN node) to point C (actual destination). A lot of ISPs recognize and profile VPN traffic, even if they can't decipher it. So hardly an actual improvement.

Tor + torrent + deliberate traffic pattern/origin obfuscation is likely where it's at but as I said, nobody made a true full solution.

[mixedCase]

If you want full anonymity performance be damned you can run your VPN over Tor. But I gotta ask, what is the problem with your ISP recognizing that you're using a VPN? Everyone is using VPNs nowadays.

If your concern is that they'd know who you are connecting to, you can use another VPN you trust more than your ISP as a middle-man.

If you trust no-one but your friend, I'd recommend running your own fiber to your friend's house, but people could just see where it leads to, so what you're looking after that is to invent quantum-entangled network cards and pick up your Turing award and possibly Nobel on your way out. If that seems out of reach, I can't see how to solve this with technology.