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Hint: if things are mysteriously hanging, add…",{"id":77,"by":78,"text":79},"7587028","yogo","Or just ssh -D localport -fN user@vps Then for chrome\u002Fchromium: chromium --proxy-server=\"socks5:localhost:localport\" If you need multiple instances running different proxy…",[81,89,100],{"value":82,"source":59,"evidence":83},"Cheaper or commercial VPNs exist",[84,88],{"id":85,"by":86,"text":87},"7587939","colinbartlett","For $20 LESS per year than this \"poor man's VPN\", I can get an actual VPN that I don't have to maintain, has multiple world-wide POP's, and doesn't log customer usage:…",{"id":62,"by":63,"text":64},{"value":90,"source":59,"evidence":91},"Not anonymous; VPS owner can be traced",[92,96],{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},"7587213","sitkack","This sort of VPN is useful for getting around filtering and blockades but is not good for deniability. Tor and or a commercial VPN that doesn't keep logs is for being more…",{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"7588918","probably_wrong","Well, the commercial VPN may or may not log traffic, so let's say it's 50\u002F50. Your VPS, on the other hand, is your VPS. If the police comes to your server, the company has no…",{"value":101,"source":59,"evidence":102},"TCP-over-TCP performance problems with SSH tunnels",[103,107],{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"7589848","plantain",">Am I crazy for using PPP over SSH for this? Yes. You'll get all kinds of performance weirdness running TCP-over-TCP[1] [1] http:\u002F\u002Fsites.inka.de\u002F~W1011\u002Fdevel\u002Ftcp-tcp.html",{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"7587419","Karunamon","OpenVPN is nice too and will work on the same cheap VPS. They have a command line version, and a paid product, Connect, which has a web UI for configuration. 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