Wouldn’t a larger VPN provider have more users, thus more obfuscation (a “larger crowd”) for the traffic coming from any one of the provider’s servers’ IP address?
If I’m the only person using the VPN provider, then all traffic from their server is the same individual (effectively as a pseudonymous user, until you log into your Facebook account 😉).
More users of the VPN would mean a larger pool of data that a malicious actor or advertiser (same difference) would be unable to distinguish the individual users’ traffic. Device fingerprinting and logins aside, of course.
Do I have this concept right?
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