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Regarding inbuilt VPN and/or TOR options for Edge (chromium)
Tor is only recommended to be used with the Tor browser, which is the modified version of Firefox, brave integrating it on their own isn't as much secure.
In short, using any browser besides Tor Browser with Tor is a really bad idea.
Our efforts to work with the Chrome team to add missing APIs were unsuccessful, unfortunately. Currently, it is impossible to use other browsers and get the same level of protections as when using Tor Browser.
about VPN, there are hundreds of VPN extensions out there for Edge and Chromium browsers in general, there is no point in Microsoft putting a paid VPN inside Edge.
I don't trust Chromium a bit. There are a lot of data breaches, which leads to privacy threats. I have my passwords saved in Google passwords and they got leaked. Literally, hackers were mailing me my password asking for money.
There's nothing better than VPN + Tor, especially when you want to access dark web. I'm the guy who works for a cybersecurity magazine. I implement these tactics to stay on the safe side:
1. Nord VPN: Onion over VPN feature is enabled
2. I keep a separate device for browsing
3. I don't give permission to my Tor browser for camera, contacts, or anything like that
4. I only go through trusted onion links. After all, there are sites that try to phish me out. For instance, there's a site named https://darknetone.com/, which is one of the biggest dark web site that's on the clear web, known for phishing. On the other hand, there are sites like https://livedarknet.com/ or Dark owl that are trustworthy enough. I found some Good search engines on Live Darknet.