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Will using https prevent them from doing this? I imagine it would stop data gathering and referrer gathering but the source URL request they would still be able to see?

A VPN would be the only option to keeping them completely blind? I can set up a VPN on an Amazon micro instance for free. The amount of data used should be nothing or mere pennies per month to Amazon.

The only trouble is keeping a VPN up. I find on an iPhone at least that while once working, it works reliably, but keeping it working is unreliable. It seems when you transition from one network to another, one wifi to another, one cell tower to smother, or from wifi to cell and vice versa, the connection can often drop.

I wish there was a setting like "auto connect VPN when any data request is made".

I've tried VPN's from Amazon of my own creation as well as the VPN included with my GigaNews account.

I'm sure running the VPN on your mobile is great for battery life.

I am already looking forward to the upcoming VPN witch hunt. When US provider are really going through with the six strikes "warning" system [1], VPNs will become more and more mainstream. It is going to be interesting which kind of CP/Terrorism yadayada they are going to pull this time.

As a VPN user for closed to ten years nw (yes, I am that paranoid/live in a tough-on-downloads region) I can honestly say, that its benefits outweigh the negatives by far. But it takes some time to find a stable VPN service, that fits to your expectations.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/six-strikes-inter...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always had the understanding that VPN providers would give you up to the feds in an instant if they came knocking on their door with a court order for suspected criminal activity.

I'm in the process of looking for a solid VPN provider myself, and this is the impression I'm getting after reading the terms & conditions for services like Private Internet Access and VyprVPN.

That is why you use a VPN that is incapable of doing so. There is no technical need for such a service to log anything other than rough usage.

I think eventually the answer is to move away from centralized and for-profit providers and network architecture, both for the hardware side of the network and the software side.

http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan

Noncommercial internet. Original style.

Make the internet more like the telephone network, not the TV network. People do not like to be hounded by telemarketers day and night.

The telephone network IS houndd by telemarketers. That is the term's origin.

But we've tried to regulate this. The telephone has some utility besides just being a marketing channel.

With TV, it's a lost cause.

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