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How do you setup TOR and a VPN on your computer? #17

Closed MarcoHengstenberg closed 8 years ago

MarcoHengstenberg commented 8 years ago

This might be a pretty straight forward question where the answer could be any link to any tutorial explaining the hows and whys and all but I want to add one thing:

Is your browsing experience terrible with those enabled and if not why? :laughing:

(cuz whenever I do, I get the worst and slowest experience of all time – and I've been on the web with a 28.8k modem back in the days)

anselmh commented 8 years ago

For Tor I use the Torbrowser with the default settings. It mostly works fine but if it’s too slow you can still try to get a new route.

For VPN there are a lot of privacy services but I use only two options here: 1) My own VPN which is running on my router (mostly not for privacy reasons, won’t help for VDS) 2) Disconnect Premium service. Block privacy leaking scripts and provides a secure, fast VPN for Desktop and iPhone (but it seems Apple just removed their app from the AppStore, glad I still have it)

anselmh commented 8 years ago

Got the hint that https://proxy.sh/ is also a got bet for a VPN.

MarcoHengstenberg commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the answers.

Related question: what do you think of the new EpicBrowser? https://www.epicbrowser.com/ Built on Chrome (currently 40) with built-in Tor Proxy and autoblocking all tracking scripts and so on and so forth... I gave it a try and while the blocking and privacy is truely amazing, the speed make the whole experience not so much worthwhile. =(

anselmh commented 8 years ago

Oh, I don’t know it. Honestly, I’d only use the official browser but it’s up to you and if it’s open source it might be totally fine to use it.