For better or worse, I don't expect to reasonably be able to hide from state actors that really want to track me down or see what I'm doing. They simply have too many tools, resources, and leverage on their side.
If my concern really is the state I wouldn't use the internet at all, or I would be exceedingly limited in where, how, and on what devices and networks I do anything online.
Tor can be useful for avoiding less well funded and militarized actors.
The simple factor for this is that even on networks like tor / i2p etc., its much more of an paradox
If you use it, then since most people don't use it, you might get caught/suspicious target depending on what the govt. is trying to achieve.
If you don't use it, then you basically give up on any form of privacy which could be even worse
I think that one of the examples I want to point out is edward snowden, I feel like he would be pretty attacked on internet if the american intelligence coudl break it so he's definitely one of the top priorities and his security model can maybe be followed but with extreme caution.
At an extreme level, you might require a librebooted thinkpad with qubes os / with tor which would make deadly slow but I guess it could still work, not sure what or how exactly is the snowden's security model but I am pretty sure it uses qubesOS/ maybe tor even as well not sure about i2p in general
If my concern really is the state I wouldn't use the internet at all, or I would be exceedingly limited in where, how, and on what devices and networks I do anything online.
Tor can be useful for avoiding less well funded and militarized actors.