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Check out wireguard, its way smaller and faster than OpenVPN and still FOSS.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/vpn-features/wireguard

Very user friendly if you install it with a GUI, almost to plug and play level.

Need more information.. This could be many issues.

Networkchuck has a good video on setting up a VPN connection to Nord on a router, will probably work with Express

Link: https://piped.video/watch?v=jlHWnKVpygw

On the not being able to connect to your server via VPN while having a outgoing VPN connection at the router level.. That could be a number of different things.. Weird topology, conflicting ports, misconfigured VPN, etc. So we need more info to help out there.

I personally think is disingenuous to recommend something to casual users who are used to solving problems with money.

But the issue here is it is usually Firefox advertising themselves to customers so that they can have a subset of those customers actually use google.

They market themselves as a "download and be private" which interests the casual user who hears about how invasive Facebook and google is online and is looking for a nontechnical fix. This small subset of users on Firefox are what funds Mozilla to use googles money to fund their hobbies.

Yes, people should educate themselves, but I personally think it's unethical for Mozilla to fund for-profit businesses that they control by exploiting this small, uninformed subset of their userbase and it makes it hard for me to trust them based on how they justify their means to an end.

And no, fuck brave, I'm for educating people on how the internet works and to educate themselves if they want privacy or security instead of trusting massive corporations.

Its more so the principle. Many people that download Firefox are doing so to escape google, and if they are not born as cyber security experts they may download Firefox and continue with no real improvement to their privacy.

Secondly, the main thing you should look for is where a company gets its funding. If Mozilla gets almost 100% of its funding through google.. How much do you really expect them to push back against the data collection of their userbase?

I rank Mozilla with the likes of ExpressVPN, NordVPN, etc. They preach privacy and security against surveillance.. But its just theatre to make money in specific demographics.

I bought a pi0 when I first started hosting things. It ran a pihole and piVPN instance for about 3-4 years before it died.

I would love to have another one, they are great pieces of hardware.. but are just scalped to hell. I'll keep buying old desktops and laptops with higher specs for cheaper until the costs go down.

I use keepassXC and sync across my devices with nextcloud and VPN to my home network with wire guard and this setup has never failed me.

I've toyed around with passbolt, and I really want to try because it just looks cool to me, but I keep having trouble with it playing nice with my reverse proxy.

My personal preference is hosting it myself on my own server and using a VPN to get to it. It gives me peace of mind because I'm not a big enough target for someone to try that hard to get my passwords and I'm not exposed to bitwarden or dashlane getting breached.

Coming from a company the preaches about privacy and rates privacy respecting businesses, while collecting telemetry and accepting 500M/ year to from google to promote their search engine... I'll take this as the puff up piece that is is.

But can't you go manually forget the network in your device network options to circumvent this?

GrapheneOS let's me do a per-connection randomized MAC.

I'm sure they do collect a lot more about my device, but there's not much I can do about it short of wrapping my phone in tin foil.

I created an account while in the store with an email of fuckyou@thisisstupid.com and a basic password and surprisingly didn't have to verify the email. Then turned on a VPN to my house.

I plan on just creating a new account every time I go in just to fill up their database with nonsense.

I really wanted to use gadget bridge. But they only support obscure watches and some Chinese knock offs.

Amazing concept, but I guess its really hard to reverse engineer some of the protocols these major watch/fitness trackers use.

I wish a big company would go against the grain on the child protection issue.

Everyone wants to protect children, but child predators aren't going to be storing their abuse materials on the cloud.

Good bot.