FireFox on x86_64 GNU/Linux
For my “normal” browsing, I don’t need/want a VPN. I’m smart enough to know all a VPN does is shift possible snooping from my ISP to the VPN provider.
For some of my browsing though, I use a different FireFox profile that both deletes all cookies/data upon closing and connects through the free browsec VPN add-on, set to use a US IP address.
The reason I do that is for certain topics I need to research (e.g. but not exclusively a mental health issue), I’m tired of those topics impacting the advertisements I see during my normal browsing, that even show up on my effin Roku while watching TV. Researching those issues needs to be done completely separate from anything that gets tied to my “normal browsing” identity. Since I started using that profile set up with browsec, advertisements related to sensitive topics I search for during “normal browsing” have stopped happening.
browsec is a bit slow, but that’s okay, however I’m increasingly having issues where I can’t connect to a site because it thinks I’m a bot, sometimes with an explanation that abusive bot activity has come from the same IP address range.
Understandable, it’s a free VPN service, bots likely do abuse from that IP address range.
What commercial VPN integrates well with a FireFox profile so that launching that profile always connects through it, other profiles don’t connect through it, and it doesn’t have the issue of being blocked?
I don’t care about streaming services being blocked, I don’t use any paid or region-restricted service in that profile, but normal informative web sites I do care about being blocked.
Thank you for information.