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PIA blends traffic with others and doesn't log (supposedly). So finding a specific person would be difficult. However, you are also at the mercy of sharing bandwidth, and I noticed more and more sites outright banning PIA hosted IP ranges so I couldn't get to some sites (or game).
I use a DO box with OpenVPN. It has a unique IP, so yes I could be tracked. My main reason for doing it was Comcast. They hijack and insert stuff into your HTTP connections for their draconian data limit purposes. I also don't like that they might be selling meta data of what I do. VPN solves that problem.
If you really want to hide, use TOR but even that's not full proof.
Kirth
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Just trying to understand if I'm going the wrong way with my VPN.
I have a cloud machine on Digital Ocean, I installed Ubuntu on this and then OpenVPN. Machines at home, phone, etc connect to this using OpenVPN client.
Is it just the case that I'm moving the unencrypted point from my modem at home to where it exits Digital Ocean. Given that my cloud machine has a unique IP address, would it be the case that browsing, etc would just be tracked at the cloud machine level rather than from my home?
Is the point of PIA or whatever that the traffic is being blended with other people so none of it can be attributed to a specific person? Or am I missing the point?