I agree, it's just that in what I personally do online, there's a lot of
waste of time that I could use off the computer.
So if I understand, Tor provides full anonymity/invisibility, yet there's the
trouble of malicious exit nodes, and it being slower. This doesn't sound
reliable.
A VPN has to be trusted, but it's faster. Another VPN downside is that it
will reveal that I'm online, and that I use a VPN. But is that even a
downside for the average user? Nope.
Now if it's actually possible to use VPN through Tor on GNU/Linux, that would
be the best, but slow.
So in the end, Who cares if it's known that I'm online or not? That I use a
VPN could be problematic in some countries though, since it could be illegal.
A VPN sounds good. Tor by itself isn't too reliable, and that's only to gain
full ninja stealth anonymity (not even revealing whether I'm online or not).
More suitable for secret agent level journalism, away from home on disposable
hardware, while leaving the phone at home. I'm open to another argumentation,
but this makes sense to me. Tor poperly used is only for specific situations,
or else the average user is using it the wrong way.
Oh, and to connect to websites that know my name (like my bank), I would
disconnect both the VPN and Tor.
