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OK thanks I’ll try to connect to asian countries servers from now on for YouTube

Windscribe Supports port-forwarding and they rank pretty well in privacy regards too but they are certainly rank a tier lower than IVPN and Mullvad. Guess it comes down to your priorities here

You’re right. Clipious and FreeTube and LibreTube all have both of them but they don’t have a solution for “sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” error which comes up a lot when you use a VPN. only third party client that fixed this for me was grayjay with passing auth cookies (yes you have to sign in for the cookies unfortunately)

Thanks I checked it it has SponsorBlock but not DeArrow

You mean brave NewPipe?

Thanks Sounds good but I can’t access YouTube without a VPN so I’m gonna get the “login to confirm you’re not a bot” error the second I open YT on web

Public Invidious instances are kinda Dead at the moment

Yeah like know open-vpn not gonna run well on it but wireguard is ok

Thanks I haven’t seen this guide before. It looks easy enough to follow

Thanks but this is VPN server setup not a client

Thanks but I think you misunderstood. I don’t want to run a VPN server I want to run a openVPN client on a router

Good point Thanks I’m will test mint in a VM for a while then dual boot mint beside Windows

Wow I didn’t expect such elaborate explanation thanks you’re awesome Then mint is where my journey begins

I think you’re right maybe debian is suited to some applications which really prioritizes stability over everything. which distro do you suggest dual boot on a three year old Windows laptop (I have two separate ssd drives on it so it’s safe for dual booting). I did a little research on it and seems like everyone suggests fedora or mint but you use secure blue. Which one should I go with?

Honestly I’m just not sure about Debian being insecure take that being said I run Windows on my devices and never used Linux before (I need coporate CAM/CAD software I should try dual booting but I’m too lazy😅) so maybe you’re right I just don’t know

Thanks Very informative I agree with almost all your takes here

There are 4 privacy respecting VPNs out there: Mullvad, Proton VPN, IVPN, Windscribe. As for my opinion I have been using Windscribe for years now and it’s been great but I have a specific use case for a VPN so I need one regardless of the privacy aspect. My point is if you want a VPN just for the hypothetical privacy gains in my opinion you’re wasting time and money.

You can install Google camera app on GrapheneOS if you want to

Thanks I will check it out and yeah It doesn’t have to be foss worst case I will cut off it’s internet access.