https://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/wikis/doc/TorPlusVPN
The tor foundation does not recommend combining Tor and a VPN.
They break down the scenarios very well, I highly encourage you to look at that wiki.
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The tor foundation does not recommend combining Tor and a VPN.
They break down the scenarios very well, I highly encourage you to look at that wiki.
If you use your VPN to connect to the internet, and route all of your traffic over the VPN, including your tor browser, then that would be TOR over VPN.
For instance Mullvad is your main connection, then you run tor browser bundle, all of your traffic goes to mullvad first, then to tor. The mullvad client is nice, it allows you to configure split tunneling, so you could say only the Tor browser should use the VPN. Or vice versa. Mullvad is wire guard, and open VPN, so you could use any standard client do the same. But it would require more configuration on your part
If, you want to do the opposite, and connect to Tor first, and then connect to your VPN, that would be called VPN over ToR. This is probably a very uncommon setup.
Thanks! It's all a bit clearer now. Appreciate that!