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Re:Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam by chrisper on Saturday April 01, 2017 @03:03PM (#14013576)
Couple of things. With Tor, you cannot control your exit in a sense. Since some websites are really shoddy (a lot of application portals are) and don't have / support SSL, you would be transmitting your entire application profile through TOR unencrypted. Somehow, I trust my ISP more than some random TOR exit when it comes to this.

Second, many websites (sadly) do not work if you are using a VPN (like Netflix).

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Re:Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam by yoshuaw on Saturday April 01, 2017 @03:34PM (#14013720)
Netflix's VPN detection seems to work by blacklisting a known list of IPs (e.g. AWS datacenters, etc.). Proxying through a machine that's not on the list works.
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