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My solution is connecting via nested VPN chains, working in VMs, and compartmentalizing stuff using multiple personas.

Reputable VPN services do a good job of keeping their IPs off blocklists. Occasionally I'll get blocked, because some jerk has been abusing the VPN server that I'm exiting from. But if it doesn't resolve promptly, I just switch to a different exit server.

So I only use this VM, and this VPN exit, as Mirimir. And given that, I don't go out of my way to prevent tracking. Not enough, anyway, to trigger blocking. Because I don't really care if everything that Mirimir does gets linked. Indeed, I pretty much always use "Mirimir" as my username, or sometimes "Dimi" or whatever.

If I don't want stuff linked, I use a different persona in a different VM, using a different VPN chain. Or that via Tor using Whonix.



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