Invert pyramid authored by sajolida's avatar sajolida
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# Temporary conclusions from April 2023
Historically, we only considered VPNs combined with Tor not to loose the strong
anonymity of Tor by default, either "tails#17843+" or "tails#5858+".
Over the years, we realized that the benefits of VPNs over Tor are really
important for our users in some situations. We're now ready to consider
providing some option to use a VPN *instead of* Tor in some cases, either as a
"tails#19465+" or "tails#19901+".
We need more research before making a decision between the 2. (tails#19902)
# Technical solutions that we envisioned # Technical solutions that we envisioned
## VPN before Tor (tails#17843) ## VPN before Tor (tails#17843)
...@@ -45,15 +57,3 @@ Table of user benefits depending on the technical solution: ...@@ -45,15 +57,3 @@ Table of user benefits depending on the technical solution:
| Have higher speed | No | No | Yes | Yes | | Have higher speed | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Can pay for quality of service | No | No | Optional | Optional | | Can pay for quality of service | No | No | Optional | Optional |
| Hide location from VPN service | No | Yes | No | No | | Hide location from VPN service | No | Yes | No | No |
# Temporary conclusions from April 2023
Historically, we only considered VPNs combined with Tor not to loose the strong
anonymity of Tor by default, either "tails#17843+" or "tails#5858+".
Over the years, we realized that the benefits of VPNs over Tor are really
important for our users in some situations. We're now ready to consider
providing some option to use a VPN *instead of* Tor in some cases, either as a
"tails#19465+" or "tails#19901+".
We need more research before making a decision between the 2. (tails#19902)