Vpn+Tor & countermeasures in case the internet drops

somuchtolearn · February 8, 2023, 1:24pm

Thanks for replying. Of the little what I know they all log and they log all users, whether free or paid

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vpn.md

# Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

*Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.*

- A Russian translation of this article can be found [here](https://tdemin.github.io/posts/2017-08-13-dont-use-vpn-services_ru), contributed by Timur Demin.
- A Turkish translation can be found [here](https://write.as/nwz9t04yfjwlv0yj.md), contributed by agyild.
- There's also [this article](https://schub.io/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative.html) about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

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I have a subscription of Keepsolid vpn but Tor never connects if it is activated first, Tor over VPN that is. So, I tried some other free vpns and tor was able to connect if these free vpn’s were activated first. I can connect without vpn to Tor, it is just that I wanted to connect tor over vpn. Two questions-

Like I mentioned in the original post, both the isp and vpn(free or paid) are the devils here. As it might be hard, I am not sure here, for the concerned to get hold of the vpn so I wanted to use tor over vpn. Yes they will log but it might be better than just calling the isp and saying hey I am abcd politician hand me over the logs and everything of user A. Why is that tor over vpn is possible with some vpn’s and not with the others?
The free vpns, with which tor over vpn seems to be possible here, do not have a kill switch in case the internet drops. I just checked, no free vpn is providing this facility. Now say one is connected in tor over free vpn mode (ignore the logs for a second) and the internet breaks, now as there is no kill switch so will this leak one’s ip to the websites being browsed in Tor? Is Tor having any countermeasure to prevent this?