@oscarikea being government funded is nice, it provides a nice extra stream of money for the project. All funding is also disclosed in a transparency report every year. Also, almost all weakneses that apply to tor, also apply to vpn, only those weakness are a crap ton more easy to expliot on a vpn provider then to tor. So unlike vpns, where you trust a singel for profit company to protect you for 10 bucks a month, tor is the future. P.s. With onion services, most of tor weakness are gone.