I’m in Europe too and my experience with TOR is not quite the same.
Then again I’m in one the more peripheric bits of Europe and not surrounded by countries were people run TOR nodes, so TOR probably more bottlenecked than in a more central place in Europe.
That said, surfing behind a VPN (which I pay for) plus provides me the level of privacy which I need at the moment.
I’m in Europe too and my experience with TOR is not quite the same.
Then again I’m in one the more peripheric bits of Europe and not surrounded by countries were people run TOR nodes, so TOR probably more bottlenecked than in a more central place in Europe.
That said, surfing behind a VPN (which I pay for) plus provides me the level of privacy which I need at the moment.
I am near France, Austria, Swiss and not too distant from germany too, so i suppose i have a couple of nodes nearby