VPNs for Ubuntu

[Chris Green]

On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 09:21:54PM +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
> Does anyone have recommendations for a low-data free VPN service?
> 
> (I occasionally need to appear to be in the UK to shop for goods in £ with a
> UK credit card for delivery to a UK address, but many sites now use
> geolocation in order to charge in € or $ and then impose heavy conversion
> charges. I don't need streaming levels of bandwidth.)
> 
> I would need to be able to turn it on and off at will, as I normally need it
> only for a few minutes to perform a transaction.
> 
> I have come across ProtonVPN but I'm open to recommendations.
> 
For this sort of simple requirement I use an ssh proxy setup with, for
example, Firefox.  You just need access (in your case) to an ssh
account in the UK where you have a login and then:-

On the machine where you're running firefox (i.e. in my case my laptop) do:-

    ssh -C2qTnN -D 8080 chris@<system with ssh login>

...  and in Firefox Preferences->Advanced->Network->Settings set
manual proxy, port 8080 and socks5.0, that's it!


I use this frequently when I'm in France and need to access something that
demands a UK location.

-- 
Chris Green