Despite the Hola fiasco, that extension would connect to a VPN when browsing. Is there a way to use a VPN of my choice in just my web browser, while all other traffic on my Mac isn’t connected to one?
A proxy will solve your problem (probably).
Here is how I solved your use case:
- Set up a raspberry pi
- Install openvpn (or whatever your vpn provider uses)
- Configure openvpn to automatically connect on boot
- Install Polipo Proxy Software
- configure Polipo to not cache files (important, because rpi sd-cards are slooooow)
I used this for the openvpn configuration. (I am also using one WLAN stick as an Access Point/Router)
You can use this for proxy configuration. (But the config files are also very well documented)
This is maybe a little bit of an overkill. And maybe there is even a better possibility to solve that on a mac. But with the rpi solution you are absolutely platform independent and you can even use it with every device you want.
I use it with the WIFI stick to watch US Netflix on my Chromecast.
Not easily, but does it really matter if other traffic goes through as well?
May be run vpn of your choice inside a virtual machine on your mac/pc? so rest of the traffic in your mac/pc is not going through this vpn, unless you have found another solution.
Awesome idea!
Possibly could bake this into a docker image?
I want to secure my browsing session while at work. I don’t want the whole computer on the VPN because that won’t work in my case.
That is also an awesome idea. Best stand alone solution for mac/linux users.
I have no experience with docker though. Maybe someone else could step in.