Never Use Tor with a VPN

Never Use Tor with a VPN

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VPN doesn’t help or hurt Tor browser, and VPN helps protect all of the non-Tor traffic (services, cron jobs, other apps) coming out of your system while you’re using Tor browser (and after you stop using Tor browser). Using a VPN and letting the VPN company see some info is better than letting your ISP see the same info. So leave the VPN running 24/365, even while you’re using Tor. [PS: I’m talking about running TB in a normal OS; Tails is a different situation.]

That said, neither VPN nor Tor/onion are magic silver bullets that make you safe and anonymous. VPN mainly protects your traffic from other devices on same LAN, from router, and from ISP. Tor/onion does same, but only for Tor browser traffic; also adds more hops to make it harder to trace back from the destination server to your original IP address, and also mostly forces you into using good browser settings. Both VPN and Tor/onion really protect only the data in motion; if the data content reveals your private info, the destination server gets your private info.

Never put your hand in a hippos mouth

“Don’t do this if you don’t know what you’re doing”

Well I do know what I’m doing…so I’m going back to my no logs VON(edit: VPN) with it’s trustworthy DNS servers. what are you going to do? Sue me?