Pigs are incredibly intelligent animals. You shouldn’t eat them.

Then dismantle the corporate infrastructure that got us here, stop pointing fingers at your fellow man just trying to survive.

It sounds like there was something wrong with your setup. I use Tor almost exclusively for general browsing and while its definitely slower than VPN and unprotected browsing, its never taken more than 10 seconds to load a page, and that’s on the long side. Usually no more than a few seconds longer in any other scenario. Definitely never been 3 minutes.