Why use paid privacy-by-policy systems when you can use free privacy-by-design systems like Tor and i2p?
Tor isn't that bad actually for browsing, while i2p needs more love regarding speed.
> difficult to configure correctly,
For Tor: You just download the Tor Browser. Already pre-configured.
> and make you more conspicuous to most three-letter agencies.
Good argument for actually using them.
Isn't Tor Browser fairly bad due to it being a target? I'm not sure if that changed recently, but I recall seeing lots of "don't use the Tor Browser bundle".
Tor also relies on exit nodes to exist, yet it's considered very dangerous to run one.
Just FUD.
> Tor also relies on exit nodes to exist, yet it's considered very dangerous to run one.
It's dangerous in some places to run an exit, not everywhere.