Comment by whimsicalism

> You cannot hide from governments.

Plenty of people have and I would rather they have to spend a Tor 0day amount of cash to do it than to do it trivially.

> You cannot hide from advertisers if you use a smartphone with apps. App developers who put ads within their app control the apps behavior completely and hence they can fingerprint your device and track you very well without using IP addresses. And within browsers, they can fingerprint you through many javascript features of the browser. Hiding your source IP does very little for your privacy.

Sure, if you have sketchy apps, but Apple has both legal enforcement and approval of apps.

> So, using a VPN as an exit node is just privacy theatre. VPN exit nodes in faraway countries are useful for bypassing content censorship in your own country, but it works only if the content streaming service cooperates with you.

...? They can't trace where your requests came from....