For example, there’s no easy way of bypassing ads on YouTube mobile. But a lot of them don’t actually say the product name. Refusing to look at it is my one, small, micro resistance.
For example, there’s no easy way of bypassing ads on YouTube mobile. But a lot of them don’t actually say the product name. Refusing to look at it is my one, small, micro resistance.
There's no such thing, really. You either pay with your money and trust that they really don't store logs (and hopefully verify this independently), or get a free at point of use service knowing that your activity is logged and either directly sold or has access to it sold (a subtle difference that marketers dodge).
As far as I know, mullvad doesn't require any personal info. You can send money in an envelope with your payment token ID and they'll keep your account open if you really want to.
On the other hand, intelligence agencies have traffic mirrors at all major ingress points so even all encrypted traffic is logged to help establish usage patterns or to eventually decrypt as older ciphers are broken. The VPN you choose ultimately depends on your threat model. I personally use IVPN, but that might not be the right VPN for you.
What about Tor? It's slow and as far as I know not super secure, but will it get your data sold?
Tor is not meant to be torrented over afaik.
Yeah, it's not. That's the "slow" part, I guess.
It’s actually gotten a whole lot faster over the years (but it’s still not blazing fast), I remember it used to take easily at least 45 seconds to load a page back in like 2010 but now it’s pretty dang usable for forums and the like, pages load quick enough to not be annoying.