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Heck, my cellular provider was tracking the HTTP connections of their customers by default to sell profiles to marketing companies. (You could opt out, but I believe the fine print was something along the lines of 'we won't sell your information anymore but we will still collect it for later'). Other Internet providers have offered a cheaper plan to opt-in to traffic snooping for marketing profile building/selling. Tor exit nodes and my residential ISPs are on a similar level of distrust for me.

I've since started using 'whole premises VPN' (all traffic is routed through an encrypted tunnel to a VPS) - I have more confidence in my VPS provider than I do in my residential ISPs. At least the VPS company probably won't use my connection data for marketing profiles..



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