Having free and open-source tools and a decentralized way of fighting back and reclaiming some of that power is very important. Because if we don’t resist, we’re subject to what somebody else does to us
While Tor is useful in several situations, probably we shouldn’t believe in it blindly. For clearnet, LibreWolf is a great option too, and I2P might be the future.
PS: Needless to say, most Monero-related tools work more or less over Tor. The official GUI has the “Socks5 proxy” option, which Tor-ifies Internet connections [try 127.0.0.1 port 9050 while running Tor. Windows users can get tor.exe by unzipping tor-expert-bundle-..*-windows, from the Tor Project website]. Supposed to giving you an additional layer of privacy…