You don’t need a VPN when you use tor. In fact, it’s probably less secure since it’s going through a private server that might have a government black box hooked up. Also, no FBI or CIA agent is ever gonna tell you to use tor???
Tor traffic is for some ppl a no go. Better obfuscate it with bridges or use a VPN then.
Think of this: You’re hosting a darknet market and there’s lots of traffic going on your site. That Tor traffic can be used to find your server, which uses Tor connections and has a lot of Tor traffic. Oh w8 thats bad. With a VPN you can hide that lots of Tor traffic is coming from your server.
Wow, its exactly the other way around. The agent should advertise VPN. And the user should take Tor instead.
Combining both is worse, too. Like others comment.
Using a VPN with Tor is like only paying with cash because it’s more anonymous but only shopping at Target
Depending on your usage of a VPN, it can help your anonymity, but it’s very much not necessary.
Can you extend this metaphor to help me understand the issue? I was getting signed up with mullvad, and they have a tor browser. I’ll be honest that I dont really get it.
