[meddlepal]

Forgive me if i'm not realizing some sort of networking safety here or inherent indirection, but how does this protect any kind of anonymity? Seems like it would be pretty easy for a government to ask the host for who owns the specific IP address communicating with a service. The host has all the billing information for an owner. IP -> Host -> Billing Information -> Owner.

[yc1010]

Same would apply for a VPN company or a company selling a proxy (like the person i replied asked for) if you paid with credit card/paypal, governments can and do hit these with requests

If are worried about privacy you should be using bitcoin (and know how to use this anonymously, which i am not going to go into), You could then buy a vps with bitcoin quite anonymously with likes of chunkhost.com or bithost.io (reselling digitalocean for btc)