• Selfhosted DigitalOcean VPS with SOCKS 5 SSH tunnelling for masking my home IP when web browsing and OVH VPS with OpenVPN server for masking my home IP for my local seedbox server. I don’t really need commercial VPNs since I only really need basic functionality to mask my IP and I don’t really need a shared service to do that.

    YMMV, of course.

    • Did you care about traces that you left behind and can be linked directly to you? Is a nice setup but if you pay DigitalOcean VPS with PayPal for example or credit card all your efforts to hide your real IP that is linked to you is useless. I don’t know if this is a major concern to you, of course.

      • Yeah, I’m aware it’s dedicated and not shared, and there’s billing info etc. It’s just so that websites, particularly forums etc cannot have my home IP just like that. It’s an additional layer of protection.