My take is that whatever measures you take to hide yourself, technology is only a couple of years away from defeating that, and the big actors store everything.

So, unless you just want 2 years of extra freedom before inevitable jail, don't do illegal things on the internet.

As yet, I can still say "the holocaust is a lie" where I live, but you can bet that even with my anonymous profiles, with their fake life stories, and my networking hygiene, I'll cease saying it once it is illegal here.

and VPNs were always a easy way to advertise to TLAs that you want to be up to no good.

But then I got busted for messing around with ECHELON in the 90s, and have had my visits from the glowies, so learnt fast