alt Hacker NewsI got a VPN in preparation for Australia's (even more draconian) "age verification" laws (those take effect in 4 days).
But what I'd really love (startup idea!?) is an app that let's you map websites to countries and it handles tunnelling that domain's traffic through the selected country's VPN.
For example, I'd like to view Reddit, YouTube, X, Facebook, Instagram and social media apps from a US IP (to avoid Australia's "age verification", dailymail.co.uk from a UK IP (since it's blocked in Thailand), predication markets from a country that allows them, Imgur from a country that allows it, Spotify from any country so long as it's fixed (to avoid it randomly stopping mid workout with a 'your country has changed' notification).
Until something automated like this exists the current best solution is a VPN and manually switching countries when something you want isn't available from the current country, which isn't great UX.
I’ve seen people do this on the router level with a proxy, with imgur being the example - all other traffic just went as normal but imgur traffic was sent through a VPN.
However it was a very complicated setup with many parts and a home server so I would definitely like to see a proper app built around this that just handles everything for you.