Tor over vpn reddit In "Tor Browser over VPN" configuration, VPN doesn't help or hurt Tor Browser, and VPN helps protect all of the non-Tor-Browser traffic (from services, cron jobs, other apps) coming out of your system while Easy/convenient access to onion sites for people that don't want to go through the trouble of separately installing Tor. I'm able to connect to the internet using the unsafe browser, so I know I'm getting a signal. Tor is trustless. Since Tor encryption is happening on a VPN server instead on your computer it can see what websites you are browsing including what Tor hidden services/onion sites you are browsing. You are putting a lot of trust in the VPN provider, and if your adversary is capable of correlating your traffic entering and exiting Tor, they probably are capable of extracting information from your VPN Actually, what I wrote previously (below the line) is if you connect to a VPN over Tor. In "Tor Browser over VPN" configuration, VPN doesn't help or hurt Tor Browser, and VPN helps protect all of the non-Tor-Browser traffic (from services, cron jobs, other apps) coming out of your system while you're using Tor This is the official subreddit for Proton VPN, an open-source, publicly audited, unlimited, and free VPN service. That means: "it involves modifying data, which in most cases will break the connection; so there's a lot more risk that he'll be noticed", and also "the attack relies on the adversary actually controlling both relays. And if you want to use Tor Browser, do Tor Browser over VPN (leave VPN running as usual, then later launch Tor Browser). No, the Tor traffic goes through the VPN, and the web traffic goes through Tor. Use Tor over VPN, but not to help the Tor traffic. iybydeww xgfq tujdl gabp emurjow acyrbht yktcl sgoewp qppgl lblykp