[tor-bugs] #20833 [Community/Tor Support]: Using a VPN with Tor

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#20833: Using a VPN with Tor
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     Reporter:  DepressedExplorer      |      Owner:  phoul
         Type:  project                |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Low                    |  Milestone:
    Component:  Community/Tor Support  |    Version:  Tor: unspecified
     Severity:  Trivial                |   Keywords:  vpn
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 Hello Tor Team!

 I happen to be a mod on reddit.com/r/deepweb

 Our community and also other Tor related communities on reddit are going
 crazy with recommending VPNs to be used with Tor. I would love some
 "officials" to refute/confirm a few things so i can point to here in
 future.

 * Do you recommend using a VPN? (any good reasons?)
 * Do you think a VPN would ad additional anonymity/security in opposite to
 just using bridges to hide their Tor usage from the ISP?
 * Do you agree that it would be possible for a VPN provider to redirect
 traffic to a own entry node that will then log the actual tor activity?

 Many thanks in advance.

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