Anonymizing my ip address

First step would be to look on the website of the ISP for things like privacy policies, information about whether they keep logs and of what.

You could also contact them and ask nicely if they can tell you what information they log. Whether they know or have an answer may depend on who you get on the phone or whether they are willing to divulge the information to customers, I really do not know.

Hi there

Unless you've got something to hide there's no point in hiding / masquerading IP addresses any more -- all companies are required to hold logs for around 1 - 2 years for Police / other enquiries (in most sensible countries a court order has to be obtained before Police etc can access the logs) so even if you use TOR or whatever the initial request to the internet will always be available - so people who require this info can always trace you if they deem you "a person of Interest".

In general people who want to hide IP addresses are often those who use things like "Dark Web", download pornography, access geo blocked content, illegally stream live sports / film / tv shows, access blocked Torrent sites like TPB, want to cause havoc on a countries infrastructure / hack other people's computers or work in a clandestine service like CIA / Mossad etc.

If you just want to access blocked torrent sites then simply use TOR and have done with it. A load of VPN's these days unless you pay quite a decent amount of money for a really private one don't work that well anyway - and it often apart from hiding your IP address actually points possible interest at you anyway.

If you really want this stuff to work sensibly set up your own domain and get it hosted on a server in a country with liberal Internet laws, and then do your own thing - it's cheaper and safer in the long run --the ISP will only have you as logging on to "your.domain.xx" and that's it as from then on your logs are yours -- what you do on your own domain server is your business. You can easily set up a Windows or Linux virtual desktop or a VDI on your own domain - while slightly more expensive than a traditional VPN it's 100% more reliable and not significantly more expensive.

With petabytes of data (1 PB = 1000 TB) swilling around the Internet and growing daily unless you've got really serious pirating problems etc there's just too much data for people to monitor anything other than a tiny fraction of it all !!

Days are long gone when organisations like the old East German Stasi (The Secret Police -- Staats Geheim Polizei) had about 1 in 5 people of the whole country either wholly or partially on its payroll !!! There just isn't the manpower any more for this type of surveillance -- even in N.Korea I'd imagine too.

Cheers
jimbo

jimbo45 said:

If you really want this stuff to work sensibly set up your own domain and get it hosted on a server in a country with liberal Internet laws, and then do your own thing - it's cheaper and safer in the long run --the ISP will only have you as logging on to "your.domain.xx" and that's it as from then on your logs are yours

You'll need a ISP in this other country to connect to the Internet though so you are just shifting the problem from your local ISP to your foreign ISP - it is just a matter of who you distrust least.

Considering that you also have to pay for this foreign server you'd better make sure you pay with bitcoin that you bought face to face down a dark alley so no-one can track it back to you ha ha...