Despite the terms ‘privacy’ and ‘anonymity’ being used interchangeably by many, and particularly by VPN marketing, I want to first highlight the key difference being that VPN connections are not anonymous but only private. Even if no payment transaction trail leads back to you. This is because the same entity connecting you to your destinations also knows your external IP. And both privacy layers (VPN) and anonymity layers (Tor, etc.) offer only end-to-middle encryption, except perhap...