ugh all the VPN talk makes me sick. First of all, telling people the VPN you use means that traces to you can start at that VPN. Thanks for not making me trace you through Tor, now I can focus on the VPN provider that you just told me you use. Second of all, I think people vastly over estimate how much more anonymous a VPN can make them. Essentially a VPN at best hides that you use Tor and gives you a static entry guard that will possibly protect you if your Tor circuit is bad (then again, your VPN provider could be bad to begin with, in which case your entry node is always bad). I wonder if I made a VPN company up and started suggesting people on SR use it, how much business I would get. Probably too much. And then I would have all of your IP addresses, and do fingerprinting and correlation attacks to link IP addresses to forum posters.