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Originally Posted by melevittfl
TOR is probably overkill if all you want to do is hide your traffic from Phorm/VM.
You can use a service like anonymizer.com to hide your traffic. It doesn't have quite the same level of security as TOR. For example, a government could demand that Anonymizer.com turn over logs to identify you, whereas TOR would protect against that.
But for stopping VM from tracking your website usage, it would be sufficient.
Of course, we shouldn't have to pay to hide our surfing from our own ISP.
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Last time I checked, Anonymizer.com was just a proxy system. Unless that has changed, Virgin/Phorm can still intercept your traffic before it leaves their network (hence before it gets to anonymiser's proxies) and log it.
Changing proxy will not stop this.
Tor will, because it intercepts (and redirects via it's own P2P type network) your communications
before they leave your computer. But, you run the risk of some of the less than legal types who run Tor (I am not casting apersions on all Tor users, I know some people use it for legit reasons, but the fact it hides you will attract hackers) getting access to your data.
Edit: Just checked: Anonymizer.com is an anonymous proxy service, so, therefore, will not protect you from this.