Why use TOR instead of Mullvad browser + Mullvad VPN?
Privacy Guides Community [Unofficial]
June 7, 2026
Just to hop in on this, the biggest difference is that mullvad, or basically any normal vpn is privacy by policy, while tor is privacy by design.
With a vpn you need to trust the provider to keep their word, with tor, no node provider knows the origin of the traffic (you) and the destination(the website your visiting).
The more interesting conparison would be how tor fairs against multi party relays like obscura. We wrote an article about MPR’s a while ago: Where are all the Multi-Party Relays? - Privacy Guides
We also have a more detailed explanation about how tor works on our knowledgebase, both in text and video format: Tor Overview - Privacy Guides
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