[retroplayer]

DO NOT USE A VPN WITH TOR.

WHY

Tor is centered around constantly and randomly changing nodes. The first node would be the vpn you are using, which does not change randomly. And besides that, it makes Tor slower and doesn't actually add to your privacy. See, all the website you visit can see is the end node. All the end node can see is the node before that, and so on. None of the nodes, besides the exit node who does not know who requested the information, can see what sites you have asked for. A VPN does nothing to make you more anonymous, and if anything, hurts your privacy rather than help it.

Don't take my word for it. Here is an article from the official website: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor...TorPlusVPN
That is not to say that using a VPN with Tor is useless. If you do something highly illegal, like send a bomb threat through Tor, the authorities can check your ISP's logs to see who was using Tor during that period of time. A VPN is only useful to hide the fact that you are using Tor at all, and that problem can also be solved by using your local Starbucks wifi with Tor as well. That being said, as long as you aren't a public threat, authorities can't see, or really don't care, what you are doing on the platform. A VPN most likely won't hurt you because your threat level is most likely low. But unless you REALLY want to use one, its going to make Tor super slow, and your entry/exit node will end up staying the same.