What is better Tor VPN or Protonmail VPN?
tor network and vpn (virtual private networks) are different things
protonVPN doesnt keep records of your data like some other vpns and they seem to have a good reputation
tor hides your location makes you anonymous but doesnt hide your usage, and its also is way slower
vpns hide your usage but doesnt hide your location make you anonymous
they each have their purposes.
- Tor is not a VPN
- Protonmail is not a VPN (I assume you mean ProtonVPN?)
- ‘better’ is subjective. Tor is the equivalent of heavily artillery (quite powerful, but slow and awkward), whereas ProtonVPN is less secure, but quicker and more user-friendly.
Long story short, it depends.
They’re for different purposes. Tor protects only traffic from Tor Browser, and Tor browser has good security settings. VPN protects traffic from all applications, and doesn’t enforce any application-level settings.
VPNs tunnel to a different server and and route your internet traffic through that physically separated server. Among many other things, one of the biggest uses for VPNs is exactly to hide your location by skirting geo-restrictions and make it seem as if you are in the same location as the server.
But theres a way, tor’s usage can be hidden from ISP
Protonvpn does keep your data, they found out i was abusing their free trial so they stopped it for everyone.
Thanks. Guess I thought Proton VPN was better for some reason…oh well already signed up. I do like fast though but I thought it didn’t keep logs or something like that. I don’t know what I’m talking about though.
Tor protects only traffic from Tor Browser
Tor can also be used with other software
yeh my mistake. i meant anonymous as your true location and identity still gets revealed to the vpn provider. ive heard stories of intelligence agencies like the CIA disguising themselves as vpn services
Not the browser. Yes, there are onion gateways such as Nipe or Anonsurf, it’s built into TAILS, etc. I’m talking about Tor Browser on a normal OS.
No problem. It’s easy to confuse someone who doesn’t doesn’t know a ton about this stuff, so just wanted to make it more clear for anyone else who may read the comment. Cheers.
Depending on definitions, yes. Run the browser and set the socks settings in a different application to 9150 and it will use Tor Browsers tor.
Most apps don’t support setting a proxy. For example, my OS updater, my email client.