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## What about VPN over Tor?
By using VPN over Tor, you are adding an extra node at the end of a circuit, which is always controlled by the same entity. If you pay for the VPN using the traditional banking system, it essentially breaks the anonymity that the three hops in front of it would provide. If you pay for the VPN subscription using cash or a private cryptocurrency like Monero, your privacy is reduced to that of pseudonymity, since the VPN provider still knows the connections being made are from the same individual, they just do not know who you really are. Even if you are using a free VPN, you would still break [Stream Isolation](https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Stream_Isolation), one of Tor's important anonymity features. There are very few use cases where it would make sense to add a VPN server at the end of the chain.
By using VPN over Tor, you are adding an extra node at the end of a circuit, which is always controlled by the same entity. If you pay for the VPN using the traditional banking system, it essentially breaks the anonymity that the three hops in front of it would provide. If you pay for the VPN subscription using cash or a private cryptocurrency like Monero, your privacy is reduced to that of pseudonymity, since the VPN provider still knows the connections being made are from the same individual, they just do not know who you really are. Even if you are using a free VPN, you would still break [Stream Isolation](https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Stream_Isolation), one of Tor's important anonymity features. There are very few use cases where it would make sense to add a VPN server at the end of the chain.
## What about VPN providers that provide Tor nodes?