Appreciate your comment!

Yeah, it makes sense. I’m probably yet not educated enough to understand what happens under the hood when i use this and that. But i’m glad that there are people that can advise me :)

Excellent! Thank you so much for such a comprehensive answer.

I appreciate that you broke it down for me and mentioned few other nuances worth considering. If i understood it correctly, this combination (in this particular order) is not so reasonable because a VPN would still see what i’m doing and i just would be trading off my traffic data for option to hide Tor from sites i visit (in case if i use a “free” VPN). Unfortunately my network managing skills are very limited. Ideally one day i’d like to set up something like: own proxy 1 (or VPN) - Tor - own proxy 2 (or VPN). This way i could eliminate ISP snooping and make entry and exit proxies unfamiliar with each other.

Thank you for the advice!

Whonix is great! Gotta try it one day :)

Thank you for shearing your opinion!

I tried it because i felt like it makes sense and decided to ask what people think about it. Browsing with Tornet terminal tool for Linux feels more than pleasantly. Also I was surprised when i found out that many websites let me in after captchas or don’t inspect my connection at all. But i have not tried it with VPN on top for extensive session.

Appreciate your answer!

Yes, it surely would. It’s what i wanted. I intended to route Tor proxy through a VPN to conceal the fact it’s Tor from websites and at the same time to conceal my real web fingerprint from a VPN provider. From my experience most of mainstream services and platforms let you in with VPN more often than with Tor. Btw with Tornet terminal tool for Linux browsing feels more than pleasantly. I haven’t noticed any severe reduces of speed.

But it still has a weak point - ISP sees TOR connections and may flag you. I would like to try more advanced approach in the future but it requires expertise in self-hosting.