Kefla [she/her, they/them]

makes me suspect that a lot of nodes are run by people with incentives like intelligence agencies which makes me question how anonymous it actually is.

Afaik this is pretty much proven, which is what OP was talking about with “if your adversary is the intelligence agencies, you’re fucked anyway.”

That said, their control of these nodes makes it possible for them to track you, not trivial. Last I heard they would have to expend a non-trivial amount of effort to go after you in particular, meaning it might happen if you’re some kind of big-shot crime lord who’s selling tons of illegal shit or something. But that it’s unlikely they’ll bother going through the effort of digging you up if you’re small fry.

Aren’t you supposed to do it the other way around

Why would anyone pay for a game that you just abandoned when they used to play it for free when you were actively working on it