I don't like Tor because it's slow for one thing. Not to mention it's very easy to expose who a person is and what they are doing, it's easy to slip and leak some information about yourself. Plus the .onion net isn't as interesting as people make it out to be. Endnodes can sniff and hijack your session. It's no where near a perfect anonymity service. Don't ever use it for any serious hacks or anything like that.

It's alot safer if you use it inside of a VM though. Maybe set up a host/workstation VM and use SSH.

Allright, I understand! Thanks for your input. In your opinion, though, what's the best way to be at least partially anonymous for free, that doesn't involve paying for Proxies or VPNs? Again pardon if my questions are rather dumb as I am quite new to all of this.

Thanks for the great read! It was very insightful especially for a beginner like me who knows squat about anonymity and hacking. I'm hoping to stick around here and learn as much as possible. Just a question, you say you don't want to speak about Tor in your post, is it bad or..? I'm using Tor with most of the add-ons you spoke of in the post.