Originally Posted by PhoneSexKing

VPNs are horseshit anyway.

They don't provide full location privacy and are prone to traffic correlation attacks. Sure, they are useful for protecting yourself from the local spies at the coffee shop WiFi, but not much more than that.

Any VPN company that you pay directly and/or send traffic to from your IP directly has enough intel to identify you. Prepaid Visa cards from the 7/11 won't save you from this.

Tor, and systems like it, are the way forward. The relays are ran by volunteers, it's free, and onion-routed. It requires 3 nodes to collude to identify you (vs. VPN providers that are only ONE node usually.)

Combine Tor with Bitcoin and you have an unstoppable force for internet and financial privacy.