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Why using proxy mode instead of VPN mode in Android? #4

Open CaKrome opened 7 years ago

CaKrome commented 7 years ago

Android has fully native support of VPN mode, which is widely used by many other proxy apps (e.g. Shadowsocks, V2RayNG, Brook) And also VPN mode has inherent advantages than proxy mode, users don't need to set proxy manually, which is more convenient than proxy mode, thus most of the users prefer using VPN mode than proxy mode. And you once said it is not recommend to divide traffic by the country, which may bring security issues. So obviously VPN mode is the better approach to achieve this. Why not using VPN mode instead of proxy mode? @chinashiyu

oilel commented 1 year ago

If you want to use a proxy after Tor exit node, you need proxy mode. If you use a VPN, since VPN is similar to global proxy, it will likely send your Tor traffic through that VPN, and cannot make it as a node after Tor exit node.