Secure web traffic without VPN
Using a VPN these days normally require a vendor and a possible client to route your web traffic, or to get past restrictive firewalls or to ensure that this same traffic is being watched, and that may even include your ISP. Therefore, if secure web traffic is what you want, there is an already fast, and free alternative: SOCKS5. This proxy is an SSH encrypted tunnel between a client’s application (web browser, an IRC client, etc.