how's it going everybody welcome back and today we're going to be talking about onion over vpn
and why it's necessary for you to use a vpn with the uh tor browser now before we get if you guys
are interested in any of the vpns mentioned today you'll find links to special deals and discounts
in the description down below as well as full reviews if you'd like to know the ins and outs
of these vpns in terms of privacy policy speed streaming and torrenting capabilities as well
as security and features so keep that in mind if you guys are interested now when it comes to using
the tor browser itself even without a vpn it's still giving you a form of anonymity and privacy
which is quite good but it's not exactly the type of privacy that you would be it's not full it's
not full-scale privacy and that's because of how the tor browser really just works the way
it works is that while your information is going through three relays or three nodes it's the entry
node the middle node and the exit node or relays whatever you want to call them so this is your
computer and when you're not using a vpn you're essentially using your own ip address in order to
enter into the guard or entry node now of course once you're in there and you're you know you pass
through the entry node and you're into the middle node you're completely let's say private and
for the most part anonymous okay but since you're passing through the entry node using your
let's say your pc or laptop or whatever device you're using um your isp or your provider is
going to be able to see what you're doing well not what you're doing is going to be able to realize
that you're using your own ip address in order to enter the dark web so they'll be able to tell that
you're entering the onion browser using your real ip address so you know if you're in a censorship
heavy country and maybe you're a whistleblower or a journalist or something like that
and your isp notices that you entered the dark web and they realized that oh well this guy you
know this guy or girl used the uh their own ip address to enter the dark web but now we can't
see what's happening in the dark web so let's go ahead and pay him a little visit pay him or
her a little visit and see what they're doing on uh you know the dark web so you don't want
that kind of uh headache especially if you're in a censorship heavy country where these regimes
don't really appreciate any kind of dissent be it political dissent social descent whatever it is
uh so you know what you're going to do of course you're anonymous by the way your traffic
is anonymous they can never tell what's going on here not in the middle relay or nor the exit relay
so um but unfortunately they're able to tell that you use your ip address so what you're
gonna do here is of course just use a vpn and you know when using the tor browser keep that in mind
you are actually your traffic your browser traffic is secured anonymized but it's only your browser
traffic so anything outside of that browser traffic is not anonymized or secured or encrypted
so i don't know maybe you're torrenting maybe whatever whatever it is you're doing outside of
your browser is not going to be encrypted this is also when a vpn comes in handy now you know
some may ask hey why not use the tor browser you know you enter the tor browser and then the vpn
the thing about that is that you know creating a tunnel through the tor network and connecting
from there to your vpn service also known as vpn over tor is more difficult to set up for example
expressvpn does not support this method as it does not increase your anonymity while this setup does
make it impossible for the exit node to see your traffic it is now the vpn service that is able to
see your traffic again in theory a vpn that does not keep activity or connection logs can be
trusted with this information but it reintroduces an element of trust into an otherwise trustless
setup leaving you with no anonymity advantages only the slow speeds of the tor network which
is why it's you know much more recommended to actually use the uh tor onion over vpn excuse
me instead of the vpn over onion uh because when connecting to a vpn first then tor also known as
tor over vpn or onion overview pan gets you all the privacy protection of the tor network plus
added protection that prevents any tor node from seeing your home ip address you will
also not have to worry about being flagged by your home network or isp for using tor
as all the isp will be able to see is encrypted traffic to your vpn server so tor over vpn also
provides access to the tor network even where it is blocked such as corporate and school networks
or certain countries another advantage of tor over vpn is that your vpn service will not see what you
are doing inside the tor network and if there is a bug in the tor browser connecting to the vpn
first will put an additional layer of security between that bug and you so sometimes you know
there might be bugs here and there within the tor browser and some information could perhaps leak
here and there the vpn will be an extra additional let's say a layer of protection that will keep you
protected no matter what happens and of course for the most part uh most importantly your isp
won't be able to tell what you're doing neither will your vpn because first of all
you have encrypted your data from your isp using the vpn and then you're using the tor browser to
encrypt yourself away from the uh let's say logs of the vpn assuming that the vpn is logging your
activity of course i have three recommendations here that are known for having very
let's say reputable no log policies and privacy policies so that's why i've got
three recommendations here now that you know how to use the vpn with the onion browser of course
you know as it's as simple as let me bring it over here you know when you download the tour
browser you're going to get a folder that looks like this okay and all you need to do now is just
turn on your vpn and once your vpn is turned on and just give it a few seconds here and by the
way i'm using the lightweight udp protocol with expressvpn just because it's the best
performing protocol um you can definitely use openvpn udp or tcp but that will cut your
speed by a lot but yeah i would recommend either use lightweight udp or openvpn udp i'll stick
with lightweight once you're connected to your vpn all you need to do is just log in to your
tor browser and you're good to go that's it really it's as simple as that and it's
the best way to keep yourself keep yourself protected from your isp uh and just keep yourself
private and anonymous in general uh so now that you know let's get into which one which one of
these vpns you might be choosing over uh the other now there is expressvpn for starters okay
and expressvpn is the vpn that i would recommend especially if you're in a censorship heavy country
or if you're very let's say um privacy wary and you just want to keep yourself
anonymous for one reason or another definitely go ahead and use expressvpn
it's been audited multiple times aced every audit and every little error they have within these
audits is addressed immediately not just that we have a real-life situation where expressvpn was
tested in 2017 as part of the when the turkish government actually seized an expressvpn server
uh as part of a an investigation over the assassination of the russian ambassador
back then and the turkish authorities were still not able to extract anything out of expressvpn
uh and you really that just gives you the ultimate evidence that um expressvpn truly has a no log
policy uh and they do really uphold the integrity of their privacy policy very well um so yeah
with expressvpn especially if you're trying to unblock streaming services by the way expressvpn
is definitely going to be the best one using netflix's reference expressvpn is able to unblock
up to 18 netflix libraries that'll be 10 with more than 15 with surf sharks so this gives you an idea
of the reliability of expressvpn with regards to unblocking streaming services and netflix
um and then you've got uh nord vpn of course all these vpns by the way have the uh basic
two basic features which are the kill switch and split tiling uh and with regards to sophistication
they all have very good obfuscation but with expressvpn the obfuscation is always on and
with regards to expressvpn's reliability in china it's definitely the most reliable one that's not
to say that north and surf track don't work they definitely work but with regards to reliability
in censorship-heavy countries such as uh china expressvpn has the best record of reliability
and consistency now just that they also have an onion website so if you're not able to
access expressvpn through the regular website for whatever reason perhaps it's banned you can access
it through the tor browser and download it from there so that's also a plus you know they've got
the uh people that are censored in mind so yeah expressvpn's definitely got your back in terms
of privacy and anonymity now nordvpn is the vpn that's a little bit cheaper but still gives you
plenty of options uh first of all you've got an ad blocker the powerful node links protocol and
kill switch and an app kill switch the kill switch of course if you didn't know will disable your
internet uh when the vpn disconnects unexpectedly however the amp kill switch will disable or
terminate applications selected applications when the vpn connection drops unexpectedly rather than
terminating your entire connection you've got of course split tunneling custom dns easy custom
dns options and obfuscated servers will only be used if your regular servers don't work
of course the thing with nordvpn here with regards to onion uh the tor browser is that
onion over vpn will give you the ability to uh use the tor or access the dark web without really
using the tor browser uh i'll link this uh page in the description down below if you would like to
configure your firefox for example to uh access onion websites but
you know the way i see it is that and perhaps this could be useful if you're not able to download the
tor browser for whatever reason uh though i mean if you're going to download a browser or
you know firefox let's say if it's downloaded you could definitely access the dark web through the
onion over vpn uh feature here with specialty servers uh but if you're gonna if you have
access to download browsers you might as well download the tor browser it's gonna be a better
uh option especially for your anonymity because firefox is not going to be as encrypted and as
anonymous as um the tor browser i mean if you're using the if you're trying to access the dark web
in the first place uh you're also probably seeking the anonymity and encryption that is offered by
uh the tor browser so using firefox or chrome to access the dark web kind of defeats the purpose
of um that anonymity and the whole encryption thing going on with tor browser so i would
definitely just recommend it'll also be better and faster if you just use a regular server uh
and then just access the tor uh browser um another thing you get with a nordvpn is that if you just
here just switch to openvpn you'll have access to two more specialty servers such as double vpn and
dedicated ipwpn will route your connection through two servers rather than one if you are looking for
double the encryption if i didn't mention by the way expressvpn will allow you to secure
up to five devices per subscription six devices with nordvpn and guess what an unlimited amount
of devices with surf shark and this is going to be one of the biggest selling points with surf shark
besides of course also having plenty of features such as double vpn and dedicated ip which are
called multi-hop and static ip here uh you also get of course the white white lister which is
split tunneling the kill switch and an app blocker uh what else do you get you also get
oops sorry about that you also get the powerful wire guard protocol and a handful of protocols
here that you might find useful i would just stick to the wire guard protocol another thing is that
shadow socks will help you reach banned websites if they're banned for you uh though keep in mind
just like the tor browser this will only uh encrypt your browser traffic so keep that in
mind no borders mode it will allow you to bypass the grade file of china if the servers or the
firewall is not allowing you to access the servers so this will kind of mitigate that now of course
with nord with expressvpn excuse me you don't have to fiddle with anything to bypass the great
final of china and this is where the convenience and accessibility as well as easter fuse uh come
into place uh but of course if you're going to go with nord and surf shark here you might have to
click a few more buttons here and there in order to set things up and yeah of course this kind of
accessibility and ease of use uh did cost money to uh kind of set up so that's why you're gonna
have to pay a little bit extra with expressvpn uh but with nord and surfshark that's not to say of
course that they are not reliable they are super reliable and great vpns now again if you guys are
interested in learning more about these vpns including advantages and disadvantages please
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