I'm am still pretty green when it comes to Linux and even more so with networking, but learning and working on new projects every day.

I am interested in the best way to keep my web traffic private. I have done some reading up on socks proxies, vpn tunnels and tor , etc. I just bought a new router that runs DD-WRT and I have a linux server on my network.

What are the best practices to stay private without sacrificing too much performance? Is there something I can set up directly on my router for my entire home network?

Are you asking how to encrypt your web traffic to protect against snoopers on the local network, or how to hide your IP from the server you're connecting to?

Both. I am looking for best practices to be as private as possible.

Well to hide your IP you'll need to connect through a 3rd party proxy somewhere. You'll probably have to pay for this service.

To encrypt your traffic you'll need to tunnel it through an encrypted connection to a location that you trust, where it can go to the server unencrypted from there. I do this pretty often when I'm traveling by tunneling my traffic through an SSH connection to my home server. As a result, all anybody on the local network could see is encrypted traffic between my machine and my home server's IP. The web servers I'm connecting to will see regular unencrypted traffic from my home server's IP though. Not exactly "anonymous" as the IP they see still belongs to me, but the traffic is protected against snoopers on whatever network I happen to be connected to at the time.

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