Yes you are correct. This is the only reason for me from last a few days I am not regularly online after coming back from hospital. I really don't feel comfortable to use a VPN which I am using now :-(
I understand your concern, but when you're already using a VPN, you have to accept that this is the highest level of privacy you can currently achieve. If you're worried that
"someone" could get your real IP address that way (which is quite possible), you should know that even Tor won't protect you if powerful enough three-letter agencies target you.
I know they can do anything they want but all we can is to make their job harder.
Interesting. If changing the Tor circuit doesn't help, then it might just be that your browser isn't routing bitcointalk through CloudFlare's Onion servers. My loading speeds are much faster when it is routed through CloudFlare's onion.
Can you explain in a little more detail how to see through which CF servers the traffic goes - and are there any settings that @AB de Royse777 can try to overcome the problem?
Maybe I will try to reset my computer, the entire windows just to be sure that any other application is not blocking anything. Before that I need to find some free time :-D