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  • Good question. It’s not quite the same.

    The most compelling reason is that browsing an onion service does not leak any information about the destination to an exit relay because the connection goes directly to the destination service. Connecting via an onion service makes timing correlation attacks much harder to carry out to deanonymize users since there is no exit relay to record when connections to lemmy.dbzer0.com are made. Posts and the timestamps associated with them on a public social network make timing correlation attacks even easier to perform, since there is evidence on which to validate the results.

    It also acts as an advertisement about the site’s commitment to anonymity and privacy.




  • Proton is a good service, but their years of reluctance to include more anonymous payment methods such as Monero and the inability to register an account from an anonymous IP address without a phone number makes me question the relative benefit of using them as a VPN.

    These do not by themselves result in a compromise of anonymity if Proton is trustworthy and the Swiss laws still enable them to disassociate your identity (given via payments) and your account usage, but regulation and governments tend to become stricter rather than looser over time and I would demand more from a service you are entrusting with all your internet traffic.