Using Tor and VPN together

[bill]

I would like to know what your opinions are on combining Tor and VPN? I know this is a hotly debated issue and the Whonix documentation does not recommend combining the two. As for me it I prefer to always have a VPN running (I use a VPN router) so I don’t forget to connect when I am not using Tor. I am not technical enough to set up a VPN connection dedicated solely to non-whonix appVMs.

[deeplow]

Hi @bill, there’s a related discussion here:

Using VPN over Tor

I understand using tor through sys-whonix is good enough for fair amount of anonymity. But there are certain sites that blocks almost every IP address from tor. And to access those sites, I have to use VPN in a kali HVM going through sys-whonix. So, VPN provider gets an ip address of tor network, and the website I am accessing gets the IP address of VPN provider. But running kali HVM for this is way more frustrating than using an AppVM called “ironman” based on fedora template. So, is it okay …

[Surf]

I wasn’t aware of the distinction in observable IPs. That’s good to know. However, I tried to build a dedicated VPN but struggle with the notion: will it only work for a dedicated domain or can it be used for other VMs, if it’s built with openVPN? Is ironman a readily available VPN domain?

Thanks,