I use a third party VPN service to get around the fact that my residence comes with broadband that hijacks all DNS and routes all HTTP (port 80) connections through a Squid...
I also feel sharing an IP with many other users adds to the level of anonymity.
> I use a third party VPN service to get around the fact that my residence comes with broadband that hijacks all DNS and routes all HTTP (port 80) connections through a Squid...
You could set up a local resolver to NXDOMAIN specific IP address replies. Dnsmasq has an option for this. Regarding Squid, what makes you sure your VPN services doesn't do the same?
> I also feel sharing an IP with many other users adds to the level of anonymity.
Can you explain how you feel this adds anonymity? There is still potentially a record of you using that shared IP at a certain time to do a certain thing, so what is your threat model in which the VPN helps anonymity?
I also feel sharing an IP with many other users adds to the level of anonymity.