Poor man's VPN (pay for only what you need)

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  • outline-apps

    Outline Client and Manager, developed by Jigsaw. Outline Manager makes it easy to create your own VPN server. Outline Client lets you share access to your VPN with anyone in your network, giving them access to the free and open internet.

  • I'm suprised no one has mentioned Outline (https://getoutline.org/) which provides full capability to setup a VPN easily on any major cloud providers with 1-click. It also provides mobile apps to use as well.

    A great experience, and I'd say it just works.

  • poor-mans-vpn

    An ansible playbook to set up wireguard server.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • algo

    Set up a personal VPN in the cloud

  • Looks like it was a cool project, but the last commit was 2 years ago. I’d suggest looking at Algo (https://github.com/trailofbits/algo), which is similar, but actively maintained.

  • redsocks

    transparent TCP-to-proxy redirector

  • Second this. I haven't tried proxychains. iptables with redsocks[1] for redirection works pretty nice.

    [1] https://github.com/darkk/redsocks

  • GoodbyeDPI

    GoodbyeDPI — Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility (for Windows)

  • GreenTunnel

    GreenTunnel is an anti-censorship utility designed to bypass the DPI system that is put in place by various ISPs to block access to certain websites.

  • Intra

    An experimental tool that allows you to test new DNS-over-HTTPS services on Android

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • Burrow-Client

    Discontinued DNS Tunneling Client for iOS

  • It does TXT record lookups or equivalent. Those get resolved correctly without any interference from the captive portal. Here is something similar in technical nature to what I have used in the past (free DNS VPN apps on ios) https://github.com/JadenGeller/Burrow-Client

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