I've been on Gentoo for years and years, but I've never used a VPN, so consider me an absolute newbie. Canadian big news media has successfully lobbied our government to implement a link tax. Google has decided to avoid the tax by not linking to it in Google search. This morning I tried to find some news about the Russian invasion from my desktop PC, and the results were brutal. No links from any Canadian sources (as expected) or US (CNN) or UK (BBC). Talk about draconian. I need a VPN to make me "self-identify" as being in the USA, or wherever, so that Google doesn't censor news on me.
Many commercial VPNs claim to support linux. Do they do this at the OS level as an executable, or at the browser level as an extension? Extension would be bad for me, because Chrome and Firefox extensions don't work on Pale Moon (my "daily driver"). I notice the existance of a "net-vpn" category in the repo, too. What works for people here, and how well? What are your experiences? -- I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista, pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain... time to die.
