They've recently started blocking access to old.reddit.com without logging in.

Israeli owned

Tailscale would work as another user said. You could run TOR too. I've got a TOR service that I can SSH into for "plan b" if my VPN is down. It doesn't need port forwarding.

Usually it's OpenWRT

Time to start learning...

Check out A Short IPv6 Guide for Home IPv4 Admins

I don't trust NordVPN. There was a lot of shady behavior by that company.

E.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/wnpmln/i_think_nordvpn_is_creating_fake_accounts_and/

Move the ports you are exposing from the qbit container to the wireguard container. The VPN container should be the only one exposing ports in this case.

But like someone else said, the gluetun image works really well for this.

There are a ton of reverse proxy options that manage the cert for you

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-34158

Yup totally possible. You need i2p running with a SAM bridge. Last time I checked there are two releases of qbittorrent, one supports mixed mode for i2p. I believe it is the one that says lt20. Check the box in settings for i2p and mixed mode, set the IP and port for your I2P SAM bridge, auto add i2p trackers and you'll be cross seeding.

In this scenario, your dad just installs Jellyfin and logs in.

You've set up the reverse proxy to your server, its transparent to him.

You can update DNS records automatically so its also a fire and forget kind of thing.

But I guess, give your data to the corpos because its easier.

A reverse proxy is a trick? That's like standard practice for web servers.

I gave it a shot as well. Agree, it works great!

Qbittorrent version 5.0+ has the settings in the web-ui so if you are setting it there you can ignore that part of your tutorial where it says to use qbittorrrent.conf (its the same).

You are correct about automatically appending trackers.

To verify its working you should be able to add a new torrent, look at its trackers and see the new .i2p trackers added. They can be a little slow to connect initially.

100%, like you said, email isn't really made for private communications. Even with me calling it out as not private, I do use fastmail as my main provider and like it.

I have a couple, just acquired recently. Pretty neat!

It's great except it's hosted in Australia. Not really privacy focused.

I hope more people pay attention to your response. Spot on.

They want your IP or your phone. Use a VPN IP or TOR and they'll require a phone number. That's been my experience at least. I don't trust them.