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Re:Thousands of Tor exit nodes attacked cryptocurrency users... by zionic on Sunday May 09, 2021 @10:50AM (#27096346)
VPN hardens against your local ISP knowing when you are and are not using Tor, which is important meta data and has been used to identify people in the past.
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Re:Thousands of Tor exit nodes attacked cryptocurrency users... by batch12 on Sunday May 09, 2021 @11:51AM (#27096973)
True, but the ISP knows you are using VPN and the VPN provider knows you are using Tor. Thats why I made the argument that the stategy of defense depends on the use case.
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