Check out Mullvad. You can pay with crypto (monero included), and you don't even give them an email. You just get an access id number, no password at all. Works quite well. They also have a setup where your entry server is different then your exit server (you can pick each) so someone watching your traffic can't match input to output. That's about as anonymous as we can realistically get.
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What's the simplest VPN with possible static IP to buy?
- Thread starter clemens
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Majority of VPN companies have their IP ranges known to banks and financial institutions through 3rd party services that scan such IPs. Some IPs from VPN companies will come up categorized as Data center (same as renting a server and setting up the VPN yourself). Other VPN companies could give you a residential IP so it will be less obvious to the banks software that you are routing your traffic. The issue with either option is someone using the same IP as you might do malicious activities or open multiple accounts on the same bank/EMI for example so when their account gets banned for whatever reason... they will ban yours too or at least flag it for inspection.
If you're looking for anonymity ideally you'd need 2 separate VPN accounts. If from one VPN account you've accessed anything in your name email, social media, banking etc. then you can't call that anonymous anymore. It can be anonymous towards websites you visit sure but don't expect actual anonymity for any actions. Needless to say a single-hop VPN especially from a home network/mobile plan in your name isn't much of a protection either.
If you're looking for some privacy and security (different to anonymity) then you can take a look at VPNs with residential IP.
Another scenario is where you can get any VPN and then tunnel it through a 4G/5G proxy or residential IP. However in such the end proxy can conduct MITM relatively easy.
Bank software will flag countries which look odd e.g your bank account is in Europe but you access it from obscure Asian country. The more you try to hide to financial institutions the more you trigger their red flags. Since they already have your name, there is no point in actually anonymizing that part. If you are talking about within a custom setup then you need to apply compartmentalizing methodologies to address different usage (personal vs business).
There are countermeasures for fingerprinting. Mullvad browser, vanadium instead of chrome etc.
I tested mullvad browser on https://www.amiunique.org/fingerprint a long time ago and wasn't impressed, I'll take another look.
Question is what does amiunique.org use in their fingerprinting? If it's using IP as well then you are a unique configuration to that IP and thus 'unique', but otherwise you may well be the same as every other mullvad browser user.
https://mullvad.net/en/browser/mullvad-browser there's some info here about how they combat fingerprinting.
The same browser fingerprint for all Mullvad Browser users
So, in order to be able to hide in the crowd, we give similar fingerprints to all the Mullvad Browser users. But how? Well, let us us give you some examples. We have standardized configurations and don’t recommend users to change settings. Firefox’s resist fingerprinting mode is on, and it will spoof many additional parameters and settings that could be used for fingerprinting. Only a specific set of fonts are made available for the browser and several hardware APIs are removed – like hardware concurrency and other APIs that could be used to extract information from your device. Another API used to fingerprint you is the WebGL, where the fingerprint attack tells your browser to render a triangle in 3D. The Mullvad Browser prevents websites from accessing the rendered content by blocking the readPixel function. One more sneaky way to collect your data for fingerprinting, is by measuring exactly how big your browser window is. Just think about it – are you the kind of user that maximizes your browser window? Or are you more a half the size of the screen kind of user? Letterboxing masks your real dimensions by adding a space around the window. So, no matter how you resize your browser, your window dimensions are unlikely to uniquely identify you. These are just a few of the fingerprint protection actions we implemented with the Mullvad Browser. Here you can dig deeper into our settings.It's probably not perfect but better then just basic chrome.
To outline from my previous post, banks will detect you are using a VPN and they do have that as a risk flag - some as a big one others as informational all depends on the policy. If you still insist on using a VPN for banking you should enable it only when banking and no other activity is done. When you are done, switch to other VPN. I don't recommend this but many VPN providers have ability to split-tunnel meaning have it enabled for only specific browser or application or reverse disable it only for specific browser or application.
If you want to use both VPNs at the same time you need 2 network interfaces feeding your hardware Internet.
I personally wouldn't use such browsers. A hardened Firefox is much better choice (such as Tor Browser), I wouldn't call anything chromium-based privacy focused at all. In either way none of these browsers whether combined with a VPN or not including Tor Browser can achieve foolproof solution. Stopping leaks, connection drops & more is needed at minimum and that can't be achieved entirely on a browser level.
On the topic of unique fingerprints. While Mullvad browser may have an X amount of users in comparison the biggest privacy-focused browser Tor Browser has millions of users. A much better choice logically is to use the ones where millions of other people have the same "ID" as you.
Tor wasn't suggested but rather the Tor Browser or rather its anti-leak configuration. The point I was making was you shouldn't blindly trust a company to do both your browser and network protection. If you seek anonymity on a browser level Tor Browser is much better choice than Mullvad. On that note all of Mullvad nodes as well as few other major VPNs are actually very carefully watched. Just because you shift traffic from point A to E to reach H that doesn't mean they can't or don't observe transit points B, C, D or F and G. In many cases they don't even care, these are simply used as starting points for investigations and parallel constructions. The days of achieving anonymous connections through a one-hop VPN and maybe a simple proxy on top are way gone.
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