>I realized that my phone checks my mail account (mail address with real name); i guess once that happens, the exit node knows who i am and this could be a problem if i transmit sensible data without encryption (ok, that's not clever to begin with).

I thought that there was no computers with phone (Popularity known as “smart phones”) that work with a fully free system. If you found one please post more information. If it's a digital jail like almost every computer with phone, then there is likely a lot of backdoors from which the developers (companies or individuals) can get the information they want. Adding Tor on top doesn't makes much sense; you may alleviate the possible tracking from your ISP, but you will still have whatever malware (spyware or otherwise, see https://gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary/proprietary.html) the developers have put (That may also happen with free software, but if you compile from the sources, the vulnerability may be obvious or may be discovered by security researchers, or you, and so it's much more likely to get discovered and fixed).

By the way, Tor uses a different exit node for different sites, precisely so that a single exit node can't easily guess whom you are by the combination of sites to which you connect. See the Tor documentation for more information.

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