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if TOR is enabled within AP…

… it’s a “No” to both questions.

Orbot as used inside AP mitigates against ISP snooping and moves the trust to the Tor Exit Node. DNS queries are tunneled through Tor too. Even if you’d use plaintext http (you shouldn’t and probably can’t with most search engines), the network leg up until the Exit Node is encrypted by Tor. Now you trust the Exit Node that can infer what your ISP used to be able to infer.

Tor is an expert tool and some applications (UDP based) can’t work, operators discriminate against it (Cloudflare) and network performance is degraded (more hops on potentially less bandwidth). With that said, I recommend trialing it if it works for you personally - for normal text/image browsing it’s a good fit. Though it shouldn’t be enabled ever by default.

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