Comment by throwaway290

Well yes that is true. If provider is what ties together age and identity... If all the eggs are in one basket then hacking one provider hacks all. Having many providers and doing real security audits and requiring them to not keep logs and all that might help but not 100%...

And a shady government might sort out some shady deal or backdoor with providers. I don't think EU is that government though (I bet Russian is but ironically they don't care about this stuff they just install black boxes at all ISPs and monitor your traffic directly)