I am in the UK, and I work for a combined FNO/ISP (a company that owns and operates both the access network and the internet service). It makes me angry that corporations and governments are ruining what was once a thriving network that allowed people to communicate freely with one another. I hope that we will be able to save what remains before it's completely out of our control. My fear is that eventually all devices will be required to have a government-mandated backdoor installed, and anyone found with a non-compliant device will be treated as a criminal.

For now, I used my Hetzner server via Tailscale running fast-socks5 [1] using FoxyProxy [2] (for Mozilla Firefox) which allows me to select a list of domains to re-direct through the socks proxy. I also have Tor installed which is useful when roaming.

[1] https://github.com/dizda/fast-socks5 [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/foxyproxy-sta...