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No. Tor and VPNs are not that similar, and VPNs are poor choice for general privacy reasons. .onion sites are on the dark web, not the deep web - the terms are not synonymous. Using Tor alone does not provide anonymity by any means, for example if your OS is spying on you or your computer is infected with malware.
I would suggest reading the other posts in this thread before replying.