@davepolaschek@writing.exchange You could. Essentially, you could create an ssh tunnel to the remote site (using something like ssh -D 8080 user@host, then use something like a SOCKS proxy on your local browser. (set to hit localhost:8080) I've done that plenty of times in the past with my box at home. That said, you're trading HTTP pokes for SSH ones. You can solve for both using things like fail2ban. That seriously helps manage traffic since the clowns get banned pretty fast.