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I don't think places you can rent machines are common (except libraries as noted but these may require ID) but the steps "buy machine with cash, take machine to anonymous cafe outside your area and get wifi password, upload info" still seem reasonably secure. You can throw the machine off a bridge later if you're paranoid - and work hard at sanitizing your info while you're at it.

Can you just spoof your MAC address instead of buying a new machine?

possibly but will you bet jail time on it?

>Serious question: are internet cafes still a thing?

I live in a capital city and am aware of at least three of these still kicking around.

You can do it for free at a library.

>are internet cafes still a thing?

I don't know about internet cafes specifically, but pretty much all cafes have internet these days.

Here in Germany there are still a lot of them around. Though any rando WiFi hotspot would propably do the trick