Revisiting Tor

There was a time when Tor (formerly known as The Onion Router) was everybody’s go-to solution for online anonymity. These days VPNs tend to be the more popular option than Tor – they’re simple, have vastly better performance, work for everything, and provide a similar level of online anonymity… assuming you can trust your VPN provider.

And that remains the kicker, and the big difference between Tor and a VPN (apart from the fact that Tor is free). Using a VPN service for online anonymity requires complete trust in your VPN provider, since that provider can see all the traffic coming to and from your PC and knows exactly what your IP address is. Most VPN providers say that they record no logs