nostr:npub1d5ml0t77tu6pfatdwz9848802u673ymrdaxk28273pa59mxm5mkstwf3tm VPNs do have non-scam uses;

- IPv4 bittorrent without having to worry about copyright trolls.

- Having access to IPs registered in GeoIP to a specific country, to be able to connect to certain sites with a per-country whitelist.

- Being able to connect to sites or irc networks that censor tor, without providing your home address to those places (ISPs sell address and IP address pairs - while all decent VPNs don't ask for your address, or even a credit card and rather take Monero without even requiring the execution of JavaScript).

(Although every attempt is made to blacklist VPN IPs, those intended for censorship bypass purposes have large collections of IPs).

You can just ssh tunnel to your server really.