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Why have I been "flagged?"

I think it was an attempt at humour, as in the fascist party ruling the country has now tagged you as a dissenter and will arrest you.

I suggest you get some hosting somewhere (location will depend on where you are, and where you're communicating too, and who you're worried about). Then install OpenVPN (requires custom clients) or configure IPSec (will work out of box on all OSes including Android/iOS).

This is what I've done. Grab a $5/m VPS from Digital Ocean, which comes with 1TB of traffic, and install OpenVPN on it. Although if you're concerned about using a US company to hose the VPS you could pick any other company and have the same results.

edit: typo

I have a two-tier solution. Cheap VPS provider in the US that then chains to a a dedicated server from OVH which is hosted in Canada.

For sites that are US-only I have a web proxy running on the VPS provider and use Foxproxy to divert those sites through that proxy.

I don't really have any particular reason to do this other than being bored and making it annoying for anyone (hacker, government, etc) trying to peek at my traffic.

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