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by easyas124 844 days ago
Web apps are absolutely not always on, and they are absolutely not more anonymous...
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I think it's pretty obvious from the context that GP is talking about a self-hosted web app on a VPS or cloud provider. It's a lot more "always on" than your smartphone, and the anonymity is the same.
AWS uptime is better than any server I've run at home, and an AWS IP is less personally identifiable than my home IP.