I saw how easy it was to watch people.
I'm Reece — a junior IT support technician by day, and the person who built Anchored Privacy. Part of that job means routinely having access to network logs: what sites people visited, when, from which device. Nothing shady, just normal IT work. But it stuck with me how little most people realise is visible to anyone with that kind of access.
I believe browsing should be private by default, not something you have to fight for. Not because you've got something to hide, but because nobody should be logged, profiled, or fingerprinted based on their searches just for using the internet like everyone else.
Before I built anything, I was a normal user of free VPNs and proxy services myself — trusting the same promises every free tool makes. Fast. Private. Unlimited. What I actually got was the opposite: slower connections, and "no-logs" services that logged everything anyway. That gap between what's promised and what's actually delivered is the reason Anchored Privacy exists — even if it means charging a small, honest price instead of pretending to be free.
This is also, honestly, my second attempt at this. I started building a privacy-focused brand under this same idea last year, but had to shelve it early — right as we began branding — after discovering an international company already using the exact name we'd chosen. Rather than risk a legal fight I couldn't win, I stepped back, rebuilt from the ground up, and made sure Anchored Privacy is its own, unmistakable entity.
— Reece, founder, Anchored Privacy