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VPN and Tor?

You often talk about the benefits of using a VPN. However, most of them seem to cost money. While I don’t object to paying for extra privacy and safety, a friend recently told me about the Tor), saying that for most people it’d probably do just as well as a VPN – but that it was free. However, he couldn’t really explain the specific ways in which Tor was better or different to a VPN. Can you help me out here?

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