Quote from: Potato Chips on October 25, 2024, 09:21:49 PM

Quote from: Cantsay on October 25, 2024, 07:58:46 PM

Are you sure orbot doesn’t slow down the network? I know I have downloaded it on my device when I wanted to access tor on mobile phone but I didn’t use it for VPN purposes though.

Edit:

I just tried it and it’s still the same as other VPN I’ve tried - it’s still slow.

Yeah, the tor network isn't known for fast speeds-- orbot utilize our phone's vpn function and routes our traffic to tor network. You're also more likely to encounter captchas while in tor though it offers much better privacy than regular VPNs as a tradeoff.

If you want the best speed while masking your IP, paid VPN is the way to go-- from a reputed provider. But if you don't have much use case for VPNs, I'm not sure it's a worth enough purchase for ya.

I've known orbot since several years ago, and must say I like it's features of being able to assign or assign VPN to a particular app on your mobile phone, while the rest of the apps utilize the normal network IP from ones local ISP.

But then, it's slow, and when I say slow, i mean super super slow, I've been using orbot for years but of recent, I had to delete it and look for a better alternative that could give a better browsing speed, after trying alot of free VPN apps, I had to finally settle with my inbuilt Samsung Max VPN and privacy app.

Somebody like myself don't need a paid VPN since some of this VPN providers charge a huge monthly subscription fee, and what I use VPN for is very minor, buying a VPN subscription will be a waste of money.