So, to clarify something: you connect to the VPN, and the VPN connects to TOR. If you do it the other way around (as you point out) it's pretty worthless. If yo

So, to clarify something: you connect to the VPN, and the VPN connects to TOR. If you do it the other way around (as you point out) it's pretty worthless. If you connect to TOR from the VPN then the most de-anonymized you are going to get is "customer of this VPN provider". As for paying for services such that "customer of this VPN provider" can't be linked to you, I'd look at places that specifically accept bitcoin (I'm not a fan in general, but in this case, it signals their willingness to avoid collecting normal billing data like name, address, cc#, etc.). https://proxy.sh/ https://proxy.sh/ I have no affiliation but they popped up in the googlings. Seems to be simple enough to get their service without giving away anything personally identifiable. EDIT: the reason I tease out those two parts is because I'm concerned people will think TOR can protect against entities that can do a global customer-of-VPN dereference. TOR doesn't protect against global super-adversaries, consult your local security practitioner before feeling safe, etc. etc.