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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google... by DKnoll on Friday June 10, 2016 @07:10PM (#11880884)
Many VPNs do actually leak your IP address. Beyond that, your VPN traffic could be associated with your billing information for said VPN. Also by coresponding the traffic to the VPN and coming out of the VPN. Or if you have any personal information associated with your Google account or have ever accessed it with an IP associated with you.

Look out the window. They're in the ice cream truck.

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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google... by rampole on Saturday June 11, 2016 @07:31PM (#11885897)
"your VPN traffic could be associated with your billing information for said VPN" - that's why I asked a friend from a completely different country to sign up for me (we are good friends with high technical prowess and he knows what he's up to).
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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google... by NetStrikeForce on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @09:07AM (#11901746)
Does he have high tolerance to torture or are you kind enough to let him give out your name as soon as someone scary asks? :)

In other words, I don't think your solution is very good. It might delay things a few minutes or hours at best.

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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google... by bbcbasic on Saturday June 11, 2016 @11:58PM (#11886572)
Thats why hypothetically it's best to use one accepting a bitcoin payment and then fill in the other details from a fake name generator.
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