Do you trust tails or mullvad, did you check every single function? Do you believe that the binaries that you downloaded without checking CRC or MD5 or whatever hash are the same alleged "open-source auditors" have "looked at and determined it is clean"? Do you even trust your hardware, did you check your monitor chips? Do you trust the public wifi and are you 100% certain cctv's are not being fed to systems that compare passive public wifi radio signal timings with the automated face recognition hash and store all this data somewhere? My argument is - why not? It is not impossible and given the available tech it's fairly simple to do even by a hobbyist? If you just want to play around - sure, just use nordvpn. But please be aware that the best strategy is to be the provider - be it vpn, mixers or encryption.

Don't forget the time machine to go back to warn past self about the one time they slip up just prior to when they decide to really go all in on the haxoring.

Some parts of the internet never forget, and the anonymous graph is only anonymous if all of it is anonymous. 99.999% isn't good enough.