Edit - replying to deleted comment saying to use a commercial VPN Alternative for the particularly nerdy brit, who happens to have a cloud instance in the US,

Edit - replying to deleted comment saying to use a commercial VPN Alternative for the particularly nerdy brit, who happens to have a cloud instance in the US, and likes to roll their own. Instructions are from a Linux machine, but you can do this with putty too. 1. In Firefox, go Preferences->Advanced->Network->Connection:Settings 2. Manual proxy configuration, set SOCKS host to localhost, socks port to 10000 (ten thousand) 3. Connect to your proxy with ssh and an extra parameter -D localhost:10000 i.e. ssh -D localhost:10000 user@mycloudinstance.com Your firefox traffic is now tunneled via your cloud instance.