Is the Information About Online Privacy Tools Such As Mullvad VPN Or the TOR Network Wich Can Be Found on YouTube Worth Little Or Nothing?

Last Updated on November 8, 2026 by pg@petergamma.org

I find pictures of women with ponytails, horses, and dogs online during my internet searches. Am I in some kind of virtual container where everything I search for on the internet is monitored? I’m currently having a major problem with internet privacy.

When I use Mullad VPN with the location Australia, cars from Australia are parked near my house.

And when I use the TOR network, a neighbor places a bowl of onions in front of his apartment door .

I reported on these things.

Furthermore, I notice that I repeatedly come across images on the internet that target me personally?

For example, a woman with a ponytail and a horse

Was this image created because of me? Because of my brother’s partner, the ETH architect, whose partner is a dermatologist who wears a ponytail? The one who also loved to ride horses?

Another striking image is the following:

A woman with a ponytail is walking a dog. And there’s also a horse in the picture:

Is this a hint that my only date this month is my sister?

And that the women around me choose dogs and cats as partners?

Is this caused by investigative software that only allows monitoring and provocation, developed by welfare recipients?

Am I in a container where all my internet traffic is being monitored?

  • Aren’t cars from Australia the end of Mullvad VPN from Sweden?
  • And aren’t plates of onions left on the neighbor’s doorstep the end of the TOR network?

According to statements on the internet, the TOR network is secure again.

However, based on my own limited experience in the city of Zurich, this is not the case.

David Bombal states that VPN services and the Tor network don’t offer much help in protecting privacy. He mentions solutions for businesses, but these are very expensive. I searched for such solutions online and found some, but the prices weren’t listed. As is typical with products where the prices aren’t attractive, they don’t advertise them.

But I will continue to research the topic, specifically in university libraries such as the following:

https://chab.ethz.ch/das-departement/services/infozentrum.html

Isn’t the information about internet privacy found on YouTube misleading? In the future, I will seek my information in reliable academic libraries and solid scientific publications, where products like the ones discussed here have no chance.

Aren’t Mullvad VPN and the TOR network just cheap products as those from VEDIA Switzerland? Cheap products, which VEDIA Switzerland itself addresses with self-irony?

And would true internet privacy really be that difficult?

Wouldn’t it only require an offer from a company that provides an encrypted tunnel to this company that doesn’t offer “law enforcement”?

Does such data really have to be disclosed? The Police in Switzerland have the right to check your personal details, nothing more. While you’re not obligated to carry ID, it’s better to do so to avoid trouble or lengthy investigations. And I’m not aware of any other Police rights. The rest is up to the police to investigate.

Police checks and detention

https://www.rechte-asyl.ch/polizei-und-personenkontrollen/embed/#?secret=JBc1hzDq2z

Search warrants require judicial authorization, and those aren’t easy to obtain. But Mullvad VPN’s law enforcement… isn’t it worth little or nothing, as I’ve already reported?

Is the information about online Privacy Tools such as Mullvad VPN or the TOR Network wich can be found on YouTube worth little or nothing?

These tools costs litte or nothing. The TOR network is free, and Mullvad VPN costs 5 Euro a month.

If these tools where worth anything, would they not be available in any major stores in Zurich? But they are not available there. And if we have look at the Community in the TOR network forum, we find people from Iran and Russia, but no one from Switzerland.

And does this not mean that these are outdated concepts which are only of interest for people from Iran and Russia? Or is what I describe here a case in the City of Zurich which is very rare? And if more such scandalous thinks would happen, would the open source community for the development of the TOR network not become bigger. So that the TOR network becomes more popular and saver? Which means is there a future for the TOR network for private users? For those who are looking for a solution, but do not need it so urgently as some companies do? Does who can live without it but would be interested in such solutions?