

The main downside of using both together is the combined speeds of both technologies can take a hit, making connecting in this way secure… however, it's quite slow. The cool thing is that VPN and Tor can be used together to provide an extra layer of security and to mitigate some of the drawbacks of using either technology exclusively. Tor is much slower, is often blocked by websites, and is not suitable for P2P, but it does not require that you trust anybody, and is therefore much more genuinely anonymous. With your PIA service, you will get more privacy rather than anonymity. VPN speeds are generally faster than the TOR Browser as messages pass through only one VPN server instead of 3 TOR nodes.


There are a few similarities and differences for example: Yes! To use PIA with TOR, please make sure that you run the TOR Browser after you have connected to the PIA service.Īlthough in many ways both are very different, VPN's and the Tor anonymity network use encrypted proxy connections to hide users' identities.
