has anyone Onion over VPN disappear on NordVPN
Don’t let other people, such as your VPN provider, “do Tor” for you. Letting them “do Tor” for you throws away all the protections Tor could give you. They get to see everything that you do. You gained nothing.
Use Tor Browser.
Furthermore, adding a VPN to Tor
- rarely helps
- usually does nothing
- rarely hurts
I wouldn’t use a VPN with Tor but I do with everything else
In my experience, the Onion over VPN servers don’t really work with Tor. Every single dns request times out. I can’t even load the duckduckgo homepage. I think the idea behind the Onion over VPN servers is simply to route regular surface web traffic over the tor network. I don’t think they are meant to be used with the actual Tor browser to surf the deep web.
Here is a great write up by r/nordvpn:
Everyone says to turn of my VPN, but then I can’t connect to anything. If I turn on bridges, it does the same thing. Can someone help a girl out please??
Can I use onion over vpn just for general use? Like day to day google, social media, for instance, and will I give me added security or just not worth it?
You should read official torproject documentation. It clearly says that is not good to run tor over vpn, just tor NO VPN.
I still think you should use a vpn with tor just in case
Onion over VPN is a great tool, if you want to learn more about it here go ahead.
thanks, read the article and was very helpful
Yeah, basically it will protect you from the entry node but your then trusting your vpn with all your tor traffic as they see it before it enters the tor network. It also hides your tor use from your vpn but this can be done with bridges instead.
So it boils down to trusting a random node with knowing your ip (but not what your doing) and trusting that your vpn, who has all your normal traffic also, won’t link the two and hand it over to government etc. Perhaps if you genuinely get end to end encryption then fair enough but otherwise I wouldn’t like the idea that my vpn can turn around and hand over all my normal traffic plus my tor traffic with a clear and indisputable connection between the two.
Even if the vpn only saw encrypted traffic I’d still use the tor browser though, otherwise your loosing anonymity and the protection the tor browser provides.