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Before going through the effort of setting up a VPN, first test whichever cheap VPS provider you choose using an SSH Socks proxy. There are articles showing ho
by Bender 1y ago
Before going through the effort of setting up a VPN, first test whichever cheap VPS provider you choose using an SSH Socks proxy. There are articles showing how to use your SSH connection as a Socks proxy for your browser. Once you find a VPS node that is not blocked then go through the setup of configuring a VPN so all your other devices can use it. I only suggest this as I am lazy and projecting my laziness on others. Try to build a list of VPS providers that charge by the minute to avoid wasting money on providers that are blocked.
The easiest way to use a SOCKS proxy is to call the program from the command line using either proxychains-ng or torsocks after editing the configuration to use your SSH Socks port. This prevents leaking DNS out your local DNS resolver which still matters even if the browser is using DoH, chicken-vs-egg Anycast DoH resolver lookups exposes region. This still does not remove the NetworkID that gets embedded in the browser under that Linux account after first startup but it's good enough unless one is hiding from a government.
In my experience the cheaper the VPS provider the more likely everyone is blocking it due to the phrase, "And this is why we can't have nice things." from others abusing it and getting all the CIDR blocks under all of their ASN's null routed or flagged as abusers.