[spaceboy]

> A bit over a week spent trying to make it work, and it never did

I feel your pain. I remember trying to install DNSCrypt[1] on Linux and failing miserably. I was convinced it would work if only I found the right solution online, or if only the right amount of caffeine was in my bloodstream, or if by sheer effort of will I could get it working, but I still failed. I partially got it installed, error messages galore in my terminal, and all my /paths/ were wrong. It was a humbling experience. I quickly uninstalled it as I don't want partially working, broken soft running on my machine.

I guess for this situation a decent OpenVPN client would be ideal like Viscosity[2]

[1] https://www.dnscrypt.org/

[2] https://www.sparklabs.com/viscosity/