VPN

🐉 WireGuard

For Mullvad, get a config file:

• Choose your platform → Linux
• Generate a WireGuard key → Generate key
• Generate and download configuration → Download zip archive

Select a country & city near you. Only one server can be connected to at once.

Import the config file with NetworkManager, replace wg0 with your file name:

nmcli connection import type wireguard file /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf

See Thomas Haller’s Blog.

🧅 Tor

Configure programs& apps to use Tor as the network proxy: socks5://127.0.0.1:9050.

torsocks can route programs without SOCKS/proxy support through Tor, e.g. mbsync.

For Android, Orbot can both provide Tor & act as a VPN to route apps without proxy settings. Add its repo to F-Droid:

• Settings → Repositories → + → Enter repository URL manually

After installing, set F-Droid to use its onion mirrors:

• Settings → Proxy → ☑ Use Tor

For iPhone, Orbot is also available on Apple Store.

🧄 I2P

I2Pd should be used: it is written in C++ & works better. It’s also available on F-Droid for Android.

Configure programs & apps to use I2Pd as the network proxy: socks5://127.0.0.1:4447.

🌱 Yggdrasil

Decentralized & E2EE layer on top of IPv6. Does not anonymize any traffic!

Also available on F-Droid for Android (VPN).

Proxy Environment

Commonly used & standard curl proxy variables to be put in the shell profile, here for Tor:

export http_proxy="socks5h://127.0.0.1:9050" # Must be lowercase.
export HTTPS_PROXY="$http_proxy"
export FTP_PROXY="$http_proxy"
export FTPS_PROXY="$http_proxy"
export ALL_PROXY="$http_proxy"
export NO_PROXY="127.0.0.1,::1,localhost"
export SOCKS5_PROXY="${http_proxy##*/}" # Lynx SOCKS proxy.

Lynx will try to use the HTTP proxy unless it is unset, so here is a function which may be put in the shell profile:

lynx() { env -u http_proxy lynx "$@" ;}

Further, some additional variables for Syncthing:

export ALL_PROXY_NO_FALLBACK=1 # Syncthing won't connect if proxy fails.
export all_proxy="$http_proxy" # Syncthing requires this to be lowercase.

Remember to read the man page for programs to see its specific proxy configurations!