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Angry Jesus writes:
"The TorrentFreak news site just released their latest annual survey of VPN providers' privacy policies. The results are very encouraging: it seems that the idea that online privacy is important is becoming more widespread and the price is quite affordable, just a few dollars a month.
For nearly a year I've been using one of the VPN services on their list. Not so much for the anonymous bit-torrent capability, but rather to frustrate Big Data's attempts to track me. I typically use domestic USA end-points and switch between 10-20 of them during the course of the day. That is coupled with various privacy extensions to Firefox (blocking cookies, JavaScript, Flash, ads, cross-site includes, and randomizing my user-agent). So far, I've been quite happy with how it has worked out. Even if I can't protect myself from the NSA, I can protect myself from just about everyone else."
(Score: 5, Interesting) by solozerk on Monday March 17 2014, @02:07AM
Personally, I've been using iVPN for a while now - mostly because they're members of the EFF.
They may cost a little more (at least the last time I looked), but their support has been pretty awesome when I needed it and the EFF thing made me trust them (and you got to trust at least one org/some people eventually if you want regularly available anonymity; at least if you don't want to lose countless hours rooting random boxes in random countries - not even considering the legal aspects - to create your own anonymization network).
Kind of the same reason I trusted lulzbot for our company 3D printer, BTW: their Taz 3 may be a little rougher (mostly louder) than a Makerbot, but they are FSF-certified (and support the EFF) and you know that if they go out of business you can fix it/modify it yourself (it's not just a PR move - all the source code/hardware schematics & specs *are* available). Also, it is a great printer (and no, I'm not affiliated with either lulzbot or iVPN in any way).
In any case, my setup for reliable non-tracking/anonymity online: Firefox + a difficult-to-exploit OS (GNU/linux) + iVPN + Noscript firefox addon + Ghostery firefox addon + faking the user agent of the browser (so that your browser "fingerprint" is not unique - I pretend to be a Windows firefox user, for example).
(Score: 2) by etherscythe on Monday March 17 2014, @04:46PM
I'll second the iVPN service, for much the same reasons. I find it rather interesting what kind of things are advertised in other countries.
Oh, and I love screwing with their stats.
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