SOCKS5 SSH has been my go-to for years.

ssh -D9050 ;

point your browser to localhost:9050 and bobs-your-uncle.

That approach, while convenient is not safe. It does not guarantee non-TCP traffic will be proxied. (You can test with a “WebRTC leak tester”.)

Using Links+ to proxy all info into that not leaking everything should be mandatory. TOR, I2PD, anything.

If you are using a JS based browser, you don't deserve security in first place.

If any, you can always use torosocks and yt-dlp to fetch all media.

If I had time I could set up a tutorial not to use SSH as a proxy, but as a client to a remote VPS/tilde to use the offpunk client there to browse web/gemini and gopher sites anonymously. OFC you won't get images, but at least you could be able to read news nicely formated either from gemini://gemi.dev or natively from offpunk.

Non-techie Russians can use Lagrange in Android and gemini://gemi.dev to read most media through an HTTP->Gemini proxy which makes a great job on reformatting the sites and cutting down the bandwitdh.

Basic English it's required, but if you can read "News Waffle" and copy the URL into that dialog box, you can get lots of interesting sites.

In some cases, that is true, but not all, and I suggest not even most. In many cases, I think people are just as culpable for being unwilling to use Whonix.

> If I had time I could set up a tutorial not to use SSH as a proxy, but as a client to a remote VPS/tilde to use the offpunk client there to browse web/gemini and gopher sites anonymously.

https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh can be pretty decent, too.

Aside, it's a shame that it's not common practice to provide resource gleanings in the form of such access to random others from one's VPS. An easily reproduced NixOS environment in VM with locked down containers proxying through a local tor instance(s) would scale up alright and significantly limit risks for the donor. I find very few people take up the offer to even use another's VPS though.