I knew of Grayjay but did not know it was open source now. A lot of the app is written in Kotlin which is promising for cross platform

Cross platform

None of the are available for both mobile and desktop

It can be cross platform. On mobile and desktop

True. I did make a feature request to have the Newpipe Extractor in the app

https://github.com/mu-fazil-vk/FluxTube/issues/44

Why could a build take 5 minutes? Is it due to the size of your project or the language the bundler is written in (JavaScript being a slower option over Rust)?

Please add the crypto addresses to the site sidebar under donations. You also may want to consider accepting BTC, BCH and LTC. Glad your accepting XMR though for private donations.

I may not have a domain name, and therefore no HTTPS, just HTTP only and can only connect by knowing the IP address and port number.

I may at times only have access to HTTP only (No HTTPS) which is one of the reasons why I want another form of encryption.

Encryption with most VPNs are more secure than HTTPS. Yes, the connection between the VPN server and the web server is not encrypted with the VPN and only HTTPS. However the encryption between the VPN and personal device is superior, not because it is relayed. My understanding is that HTTPS is “secure” for basic use, just like Windows 11 is secure. But not secure from five eye agencies unlike VPNs and other like systems like Tor and I2P.

My goal is to have a user connect to a web server and have it not possible for the web server to know what is going on, nor can anyone snooping the packets in transit know what is going on. Not know the HTML structure, form field data, etc.

Mega is a good example of what I want to learn to create. Not just to transfer files, but for what text is displayed on the page and the form field values and have it so that the server admins cannot decrypt and is encrypted this data in transit.

I am considering just renting a server. The benefit of self hosting over a VPN is that I control my server completely, and I am not renting a server that I cannot physically reach.

This one looks promising especially if the dev adds this feature I requested. It is written in Dart.

https://github.com/emavgl/oinkoin/issues/9

This?

https://github.com/popey/unsnap

run unsnap?

https://github.com/ivpn/desktop-app/issues/290

I made this feature request to IVPN. I doubt IVPN will make it happen but I also did it to get the idea out there. I do think IVPN clients are the best FOSS VPN clients on the market and the idea was to fork IVPN desktop and mobile clients and modify them to bee these universal VPN clients were any VPN provider can integrate these clients into their service. This way a user can subscribe to a few or several VPN providers and access them all in one client, easy to add providers in the client. All a user needs to do is add a URL or IP address in the subscription settings of the VPN client, and login to the VPN account and from there the VPN client will import the VPN servers that VPN providers has and always keep them up to date when the VPN providers adds or remove servers.

Also such an idea will ensure there is a one, secure and fully open source VPN client that works with many VPN providers, and VPN providers do not need to spend time and money developing their own clients for desktop and mobile, and can instead spend time and money on their service and servers. VPN providers can contribute to the universal VPN client if they so wish.

Not necessary. I am suggesting this as a user feature, not a moderator/community feature.

Karma system was a horrible feature on reddit.