Concealing IP address from VPN provider

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Originally Posted by Tokeman

What if I want to conceal from my ISP that I'm going to sign up for proxy service B so I use free proxy A to do the signup.
Yea, stupid paranoid.

They will find out either way when you connect, the OpenVPN protocol is different from regular TLS and they can be readily distinguished by a passive eavesdropper, even if the traffic is encrypted and they can't know what you're transferring. Sometimes metadata can be almost as revealing as actual data.

Additionally, you have to trust that the people running the proxy you used to reregister are not logging your details for nefarious purposes...