Nice revision. If you’re including TOR I would say Tailscale could be considered for a VPN. I’m hosting a Gitea instance completely for free on their service. It’s on my hardware, but it’s their domain.

Congrats on the setup. Is that proxmox I see in the background?

I don’t remember exactly what it was about them, but I seem to recall some bad press surrounding them or something. Honestly most VPNs have sort of shady marketing tactics.

Hey, for some reason, I can’t click on the picture of your spreadsheet. Not sure if it’s an instance thing or something on my machine. Anyways, I’ve had the Proton suite of software for over a year now. I first got it because Canada is a little more lax on enforcing copyright laws, and their VPN protocol supports port hopping. They have been pretty solid for the most part. I think one of the servers I was relying on in Vancouver went down for maintenance, so I had to pick a new one. I proxy some of my docker services with an application called gluetun and it works great with Proton.

I haven’t fully swapped over my email, but if I’m already paying for it, I might as well use it. I should also say I have used Nord, PIA, and Mullvad in the past and they all worked for what they said they would do. In the case of PIA, I’m pretty sure they’ll easily give up records when compelled.

+1 for FreshRSS, I’ve only been using it for about six months but I’m constantly tweaking my config just because I like to play around with it.

That sounds like a very functional and rational solution to the problem of age verification. But age verification isn’t the ultimate goal, it’s mass surveillance, which your solution doesn’t work for.