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I guess this settles it for me. What VPN should I go for?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

And this is why - all together now - "An IP is not an ID". They don't know what you've downloaded; they know what some number of IP addresses have downloaded from some trackers at some points, and you might be have been assigned one of those IPs after the fact. They aren't useful, alone.