hello all 😃
I'm having trouble following this article:
https://vpnadviser.com/tutorials/connect-vpn-tor/
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Protecting Yourself
Connecting to Tor first then to an VPN server adds another additional privacy layer. This works because the VPN server will not see your original IP address, but the IP of the TOR exit node. Also a compromised or malicious Tor exit node cannot sniff your traffic as its protected by the encrypted vpn layer.
Steps
1. Download the Tor browser bundle (link)
2. Download and install the OpenVPN client (link)
3. Purchase a VPN service that supports OpenVPN (list here)
4. Download .ovpn configuration files from your VPN provider
5. Edit .ovpn file, add the following line to the end of the file
6. socks-proxy 127.0.0.1 9150
7. Extract the Tor browser bundle. Launch “Start Tor Browser.exe”
8. Start the OpenVPN Client.
9. Click the “+” next to connection profiles. Select import from local file, click Import. Navigate to the .ovpn configuration file you modified. Now click on the configuration you just loaded,
10. enter your VPN username and password.
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steps 9 + 10 are different in my config:
step 9: I got an automatic generated .ovpn (config file) downloadable from the vpn provider
(mullvad.net - if you want/need to see that config file just generate a free account and download the config-for-openvpn.zip there - i do not want to post mine here...)
so I just added the line from
step 6. socks-proxy 127.0.0.1 9150
into that downloaded config file, started - and (after it worked ONCE, now:) - nothing :-)
like I said - it worked only once - now I can't repeat it :-)
is anyone using the same setup?
step 10: I don't need to input any username and/or password
I'm on win32 (xp, sp3) and I don't know what I'm doing wrong - can you please help me?
THANKS!
