Why not? You'll encounter a lot of censorship from not being able to join most IRC servers to not being able to check in on your flight because the website blocks Tor users, but sure you can if you want to, regardless of the ISP.
Isn't that the whole point, being able to connect to information regardless of your physical location or ISP?
Yes. Your endpoint is liable to be in another country, so sites that sniff that might be affected (google defaulting the german, some youtube videos not playing because they don't have play rights in Vietnam, etc). Google also likes throwing captchas at in case you're a bot. And if you login to gmail, they'll assume you're being hacked and text you about it.
Actually, aside from google properties, I've only seen a couple sites respond negatively to tor (slashdot and some blog that banned everyone from even seeing content based on a spam block list of some sort)
I wouldn't try to buy anything with a credit card while using Tor. Many online businesses, especially ones with high fraud risk like hosting companies, will reject your payment if you're using a proxy. The company I used to work for would suspend your account until you sent in a picture of a government issued photo ID. If you didn't within 48 hours, they would close the account and you'd have to wait five business days for the refund.
Yes but I think you'd be better off using it to anonymously purchase a VPS in your desired country of exit. Then set that VPS up to run a web proxy on a secured hidden service, and perform your personal browsing via it.
That way - assuming that the VPS provider is trustworthy - you get to avoid the ever-present malicious exit node operators, and websites that refuse service to Tor exit node users. While still making your browsing data untappable via Google Fibre, and dissociating your IP address from the VPS IP address.
The only downside is that your behaviour is not masked by those of hundreds of other Tor users as you only have your own VPS as an exit point.
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[ 58.2 ms ] story [ 239 ms ] threadIsn't that the whole point, being able to connect to information regardless of your physical location or ISP?
Actually, aside from google properties, I've only seen a couple sites respond negatively to tor (slashdot and some blog that banned everyone from even seeing content based on a spam block list of some sort)
Bitcoin should be fine though.
That way - assuming that the VPS provider is trustworthy - you get to avoid the ever-present malicious exit node operators, and websites that refuse service to Tor exit node users. While still making your browsing data untappable via Google Fibre, and dissociating your IP address from the VPS IP address.
The only downside is that your behaviour is not masked by those of hundreds of other Tor users as you only have your own VPS as an exit point.