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The thing with VPN's is that you're only shifting the trust from your ISP to your VPN provider. That provider can still see pretty much everything you're doing and your real IP, if they wanted to. To add to this, plenty of VPN companies have been found logging when they said they didn't. I would say either set up traffic for I2P, or simply go with an actually no logs VPN company like Mullvad, who's been battle tested and doesn't log, and you'll be fine.
People also say that because it's important to understand what a VPN is and does as well. It wasn't originally meant to be any sort of anonymity tool, the technology exists to make it seem as if your traffic is coming from somewhere else - which allows for things like remote work on a local network.
Skip Mullvad. They're removing port forwarding at the end of the month. I've been with them for years and unfortunately have to switch providers yet again.
Eh don't bother. You weren't as anonymous as you thought using port forwarding if you're doing anything bad enough to warrant NSA attention. Most users probably are not. Mullvad is just being honest about their limitations here.
I doubt the NSA will come after me for sharing some movie files, so I'm not really worried about that. Port forwarding is essential though as you won't be able to seed any files to 99.9% of leechers, which is an issue with private trackers and goes against the concept of p2p sharing in general.
Mullvad is removing port forwarding because a few bad apples spoiled the bunch by using their service for highly illegal things and its bringing too much attention to the company, as they described in their press release. They aren't removing it because they can't keep things anonymous (which is why they removed the automatic monthly subscription some time ago).