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by jstanley 2762 days ago
Fair enough.

For what it's worth, Tor does support choosing the country of your exit node, and is not as slow or unreliable as it has been in the past (although still not as fast as just using a VPS), but I watch YouTube over Tor without noticing anything unusual.
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lazerwalker 2762 days ago
To flip the question around: what benefits does Tor give me over my existing setup? I can see an ideological argument, and I can see the $5 or $10 a month savings, but — especially given my threat model is well enough served by a VPN — I'm curious if there are other practical benefits of Tor that might help overcome the obvious downsides (more complicated setup, slower)
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jstanley 2762 days ago
> I can see an ideological argument, and I can see the $5 or $10 a month savings

That is the benefit of Tor.

There's also the fact that the VPN provider is in a position to know where your traffic is both coming from and going to, and there is nobody who can do that in Tor.

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