Summary

The Tor web app is the only way to access onion sites.

However, when youcompare these two, you’ll quickly see that they have very different use cases.

VPNs are privacy tools that allow you to connect to servers owned and operated by your provider.

Doing so encrypts your connection in a so-calledVPN tunneland also lets you assume the location of that server.

It does all this while also securing your connection.

Related:VPNs vs. Tor: Which Should You Use?

Toris a little different.

However, it doesn’t do this throughVPN servers, but instead through what are called nodes.

If you look at the way Tor and VPNs operate, this is the big difference.

VPNs use centralized servers, owned and operated by profit-motivated companies.

Tor, on the other hand, is decentralized and not run with profit in mind.

For true anonymity you should probably useVPNs and incognito modein tandem, at least.

Tor isn’t quite as straightforward as it doesn’t encrypt your connection.

However, anything after that second node is a mystery to it.

Related:Is Tor Really Anonymous and Secure?

These are sites that, for whatever reason, want their visitors to be anonymous while browsing.

Other browsers can’t do this.

VPNs can’t either, simply because they aren’t browsers.