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So I'm just being introduced to the concept of using a VPN or something like Tailscale to access one's services, instead of opening the services directly to the web, but I'm thinking for streaming purposes or just accessing your services on the run, isn't it an annoyance having to connect to your home network all the time? Or do you keep the VPN running on your phone for example? What if you use a VPN provider for privacy purposes, wouldn't one need to then switch VPN connection?

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[–] Dust0741@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

For an external VPN like mullvad, I run my own proxy. Again it's only available from my VPN or inside my network.

It uses socks5 and gluetun docket containers and in apps that support proxies, I can add my proxy to it and it'll route that traffic through the paid VPN.

Or, a work profile (see shelter) or androids new private spaces. If you have private spaces, it uses a seperate network. So if you have a VPN installed outside the private space, it won't work on apps inside the space. So, what you could do is have a paid VPN inside private spaces, and use it and a web browser or whatever there, and use your server's VPN outside the private space.

Lmk if you want any of my docker composes

[–] Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

Very interesting. Didn't know this was a possibility. I don't need anything now but thanks for offering, might get back to you

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