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Hi everyone,

I would like to know which is the best configuration between configuring RethinksDNS or only using a VPN.

At the moment I’m using Proton VPN and Mullvad’s private DNS, but I’m wondering if it would be better to configure RethinkDNS (Mullvad’s private DNS) + Orbot to configure and Proton VPN.

Using Rethink will allow me to access all my network traffic, route my email applications through Orbot and still use a VPN to browse the internet.

Which is better, a VPN and private DNS set up or using Rethinks + Orbot and VPN?

Thanks in advance.

    Stewart It's generally not advised to mix Tor/VPNs with private DNS. It's a way to fingerprint someone and you have to trust more than one company/entity.

        other8026 Oh right, I understand, the VPN private DNS is enough, no need to add Tor.
        Thanks for the answer

          VPN does very little if anything regarding privacy. only TOR will do that and then a vpn is just in the way

            Dangor Coupled with something like Proton VPN's NetShield that blocks tracking and ads

              Dangor sure, but very likely that your ip is coming from other sources that von doesn't block.

              besides ip is now a very small piece of privacy...

              to be clear, vpn may help with security but thinking it will help with privacy will cause you to spend money with no upside. i won't bore you with sources supporting this but easy to find assuming they aren't coming from someone with "vpn-skin" in the game

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                  lcalamar

                  lcalamar sure, but very likely that your ip is coming from other sources that von doesn't block.

                  If your VPN is set to control system connection with a killswitch then how is this an issue?

                  lcalamar besides ip is now a very small piece of privacy...

                  This is incorrect. Assuming your ISP is not setup anonymously (which most peoples aren't) then your IP address absolitely matters.

                  lcalamar to be clear, vpn may help with security but thinking it will help with privacy will cause you to spend money with no upside. i won't bore you with sources supporting this but easy to find assuming they aren't coming from someone with "vpn-skin" in the game

                  Assuming the company is vetted and trusted, it absolutely increases your privacy.

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                          lcalamar

                          Tor*

                          "Note: even though it originally came from an acronym, Tor is not spelled "TOR". Only the first letter is capitalized. In fact, we can usually spot people who haven't read any of our website (and have instead learned everything they know about Tor from news articles) by the fact that they spell it wrong." - torproject.org

                          You can be de-anon'd through Tor, it's not a magic bullet. If you don't know what you're doing and have not researched it's limitations and considerations you could have bad opsec and open yourself up to be being de-anon. There are many ways to be de-anon'd through Tor via things such as finger printing, multi account logins in the same session, ultrasound exploits, opening downloaded files online, technically moving your mouse curser from the Tor browser to a non-tor browser can expose your IP address, so on and so fourth.