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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Tor project themselves reccomend against using their service with a VPN. The only thing a VPN would do is prevent your ISP from knowing you're accessing Tor, but if the feds are actively trying to get you (as this meme seems to imply) then the VPN won't really do much. If anything using a VPN would only make you more suspicious

[–] Rustmilian 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you don't want your ISP to know, there's this magical thing called TOR Bridges.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Tor project themselves reccomend against using their service with a VPN

The devs say it as general advice for those who don't know what they are doing.. It's perfectly fine as long as you don't try to set up strange configurations and you can trust your vpn provider.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the correction

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This guy created his account today. He's a troll, don't bother.

[–] Rustmilian 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Mental Outlaw's Video

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OP ITT is really just jumping around screaming that they're the only person on this platform who's not in the CIA lmao

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Why are you always spending time with the CIA? Pretty sus, maybe you're in the CIA, or a CIA shill, huh?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My brother once said Tor browser is dangerous. He probably thinks you get sent to an illegal store or a CSAM site the second you open that thing.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I've never once seen a valid argument of why someone should not use a VPN.