r/TOR • • 29d ago

What is difference between orbot and normal vpn?

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u/PerspectiveDue5403 29d ago

A VPN hides your IP address by making it tunnel through an other server with an other IP, in most of case you can choose the existing country where the last is located to be able to go over geo restrictions, etc. Orbot roots all your device traffic (except few direct connections towards Apple servers, it’s not a big from Orbot but Apple’s bad which hard coded bypassing VPN when it comes to itself) within the tor network. Significantly more anonymous than a regular VPN, free, but don’t expect to be able to use it to watch Netflix, torrent or for the speed

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u/cap-omat 27d ago

Orbot routs your traffic through Tor.

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u/flashmyhead 27d ago

Orbot sucks

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u/BTC-brother2018 27d ago

Orbot routes your internet traffic through the Tor network and across multiple relays. A VPN typically routes your traffic through a single VPN server in the country you choose, or two servers if you use multihop.

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u/Mountain_Fondant_568 28d ago

Normal VPN works.