Comment by bawolff
> Doesn't a solid VPN
Finding a solid one is the hard part. With tor, you kind of know what you are buying. The risks are in the open. With VPN maybe the operator is selling your data to advertizers. Maybe they are keeping logs. You kind of have to just trust them and have no way to verify.
This hypothetical was about "a low value target" looking for "basic anonymity". Just get Mullvad and assume the entire company wasn't a 15 year long con set up to better target ads at you specifically.