• Mordikan@kbin.earth
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    18 hours ago

    Yeah, multi-hop is pointless for tracking. The logic to it is crazy too. People think VPNs make them anonymous (they don’t), but they also think multi-hop makes them MORE anonymous. So anonymity is kind of an absolute concept. Either you are or you are not anonymous. You can’t be more anonymous than anonymous. There is no +1.

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      2 hours ago

      Yeah, multi-hop is pointless for tracking.

      The logic to it is crazy too. People think VPNs make them anonymous (they don’t), but they also think multi-hop makes them MORE anonymous.

      Whether multi-hop matters to tracking is far and away a different discussion than whether multi-hop “makes you anonymous”.

      I too disagree with the original comment, but also believe the pendulum swung too far the other direction in your replies.

      Situations differ. Threat models differ. More hops can, from direct personal experience, make the difference in tracking. Your claim of “…multi-hop is pointless for tracking.” has too broad of a scope to be correct.