[joconde]

> HTTPS can mitigate some of that, just like it can for VPNs, but the site you're going to is still very much visible.

Not in a sense that defeats privacy, since the exit node doesn't know the sender.

With Tor and HTTPS, no Tor node sees the cleartext data, and no node can associate me with the server I'm contacting. That sounds very much private to me.

> https://support.torproject.org/faq/staying-anonymous/

I've read these warnings, but I don't see anything that would defeat privacy if Tor is used correctly.