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NordVPN Expands Virtual Servers to 79 Locations for Censorship Bypass
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this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2026
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Seriously if you want censorship resistance, please use one of the 100% free to use Tor nodes maintained by people like me
Not only does it cost you nothing, but us Tor node operators can't doxx you or track you, the way any VPN can
But Tor is always slow as fuck for me.
Hello, fellow Tor relay admin!
Maybe it's a silly question, but would using a VPN, like Mullvad, in conjunction with TOR make it even more secure, or is that just redundant?
In most cases using a VPN with Tor makes you less secure.
Any threat model covered by VPN+Tor is like a million times better covered by simply using Tor Bridges and no VPN
Thank you!
Back on Reddit /r/tor this was such a common question that someone made a whole subreddit just so "/r/torwithvpn" could be replied as a FAQ
Here's a privacy-preserving link to the subreddit post. It's good info, worth the read
https://redlib.zaggy.nl/r/TorwithVPN/comments/qm4d91/youre_here_because_you_wanted_to_use_tor_with_vpn/