[mindslight]

I personally use a bunch of VMs for web browsing, all with different exit IPs.

And yes, a lot of people use VPNs but don't use them correctly. But I'd rather help them to use them more effectively, rather than shout down that VPNs "don't work". And even when they're not used correctly, most people don't have particularly omniscient threats. And even imperfect use still helps everyone else by creating cover traffic, a fluid market for VPN services, and more evidence to websites that (IP-based) nagwalls hurt legitimate visitors.

[aborsy]

You use Qubes OS?

Otherwise, a lot of ram, CPU and storage might be needed.

[mindslight]

Actually no, just home-rolled with virt-manager. I can definitely see the advantages of Qubes, but at this point it feels like it would be a lot of learning and changes for what is mostly a similar system. And I don't think it would work for the servers/daemons I run either.

[aborsy]

Yeah, even getting that beast installed on a typical machine may not be straightforward. It has very specific hardware requirements.