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> From: Walter Dnes <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2023 7:34 PM
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> Subject: [gentoo-user] VPN newbie questions
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> 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.
>
>
If you want something in the tree and free, TOR can be told to expose a control
port which you can then use to tell it how many hops you want and what exit
nodes to use. One-hop tunnels are not particularly great for disguising
yourself, but that's not your goal in this case.
At least... Not until they decide to crack down on link-tax evasion.
There used to be a GUI frontend for it called "Vidalia". But it hasn't been
updated in a long time. Not sure if there's a replacement.
LMP
