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VPN Services That Take Anonymity Seriously

posted by paulej72 on Monday March 17 2014, @12:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-can't-find-me dept.

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."

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 17 2014, @07:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 17 2014, @07:05AM (#17430)

    "Nice way to get on a watch list and get a budget assigned to you. Then, you are really going to get tracked ;-)"

    Why waste the time when you can bring in a partyvan?