Why use paid vpn when TOR is free?

Its a nightmare to use tor for your everyday tasks

Big difference also is if you enable a vpn before opening tor than not even your ISP can see your using tor. If you use tor with no vpn than your iso can see your on tor.

This is assuming it came down to that extreme situation of an ISP needing to investigate your history.

I heard that a lot of high bandwidth tor exit nodes in the US are controlled/owned by the NSA

Is it more secure i think not. I think there about 6000 nodes and some of them are compromised by the intel community where as no one can see your isp or activity through a vpn like Mulvane or any other vpn based outside the 5 eyes. Am I right?

Cloudflare captcha seems to work better with tor than google captcha. Not sure if how that translates to tor’s anonymity from cloudflare though.