I could reduce costs and run a minimal VM that acts as a WireGuard VPN server and proxy TCP using fancy firewall rules or whatnot, but that would also

I could reduce costs and run a minimal VM that acts as a WireGuard VPN server and proxy TCP using fancy firewall rules or whatnot, but that would also cost money. I'm fairly skeptical this person can't afford ~60 $/year for a basic vps from Digitalocean to use as a public endpoint. Or maybe even less if they looked at some non-mainstream vps provider. This whole article was a rant about how I can't get anything good for free. I know right? I always feel the same when I go buying groceries and surprise surprise, I have to pay before leaving. /s On a more serious note... I'd like to tell this person that the fact they are already getting so much free stuff is the reason why they have to be and are so skeptical and cyinical about MITM, security and privacy topics.