I've started using an excess data method, to make harvested data worthless.
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Honestly VPNs only cover your ass when practicing proper OpSec, but even a basic supena breaks a VPN. It's all about threat actors. Like if you're dealing with some nutcase stalker like for this Dev, or if you actually have a State threat actor.
Some people opt to treat all possible actors as a threat.
If you really wanna hide your real identity on the internet, i recommend going through all sites like whitepages and issuing a request to have your data removed. since you recently tarted practicing Privacy/Anonymity, it's likely you're already plastered somewhere. Even when you apply for credit cards etc, there are data brokers for financial data like Experion etc. the really big data brokers will flat out ignore your requests tho.
May even be good to silently start flushing old forum posts of old information about you on the places you've posted about yourself, silently replacing words is the quiet way that would go unnoticed if done. could also opt to replace information with random bullshit to make harvested data useless if it gets parsed with real data.