I have never tried it personally but the wireguard page has information on how to route a specific applications traffic over the wireguard interface.
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Mullvad is very fast. I was surprised to see I could not saturate Mullvad’s connection with my 1000Mbit fiber plan. It costs 5EUR for a month so there’s not much you can lose by testing it out.
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With the exception of their very dodgy owners.
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Oh i forget to mention not only FOSS but free, since i don’t care about privacy in that case.
Thx everyone, since there were no quick examples i’ll go with @dalto’s guide and try it later.
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Good luck finding a VPN that is both free and fast. 
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well…relatively fast, 1-2 Mb/s would do.
https://calyx.net
Both of these looks good in that range.
I have bounced between protonvpn and mullvad. I like mullvads way of signing up for the service and having a random number for your account instead of using an email or account name and stuff, there servers seem to be fast in my experiance, and their apps seem to prefer wireguard by default but the big hang up for me is most of the streaming services won’t let you use their services on mullvad also you are limited to 5 devices. So I went back to protonVPN which is what I was using before and am able to watch geo restricted streaming content with it. My only real complaint with protonVPN is that their linux app is kinda lacking compared to all of the other operating systems apps to include even the mobile apps(though if you use it on an androidtv/firetv it takes away alot of the settings and features it has on the phone I am guessing to make it remote freindly)
I’ve been trying to get the ProtonVPN connection to work, either via the app or manually via NetworkManager. Even after upgrading to Plus, I can’t connect - constant asking for password prompts (which nothing works, either my Proton password or my local password).
Gotta say the Linux client is one of the worst I’ve ever used.
Am I the only one that doesn’t use the provided VPN clients?
I have found that using OpenVPN gives me more control and is more reliable.
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Nope.
OpenVPN all the way for me.
Makes it easier to use multiple providers seamlessly, and allows you to lock down your system to all non VPN traffic using a firewall like ufw.
I have well over 100 endpoint servers from multiple providers, that can be switched between easily with a couple of network manager clicks.
Just copy the contents of /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections to use all these VPN connections on another system, without having to set them all up again.
Can be a pain when subscriptions expire though, lots of account number and password changes to edit.
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This is a big deal for me. I know that many of the clients provide support for this but I can’t bring myself to trust those clients. Especially given all the ways you can leak data. I feel much more comfortable knowing it is locked down.
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It is so simple too. Bullet proof kill switch. Block everything, only let through what is essential to make a vpn connection.
I remember having an online chat conversation with a provider support analyst trying to get them to tell me the ports I would have to leave open if I ever used their VPN client.
Waaaaay too many.
Not to mention those clients that reconfigure parts of your system to suit their app.
No thanks.
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I connect to mullvad from my network firewall running OPNSense and have rules set up to cover all devices on my network. Then I don’t gotta worry about installing whatever client for a device.
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It all comes down to your personal risk model and understanding what you are trying to protect.
If your goal is “100% anonymity”, you can’t get that on the internet. Even Tor doesn’t provide that. So, yes, VPNs don’t provide bulletproof anonymity. However, that doesn’t make them useless.
VPNs are helpful in many ways depending on your risk model. I would describe how but I feel confident there are already posts from me in this topic doing that. 
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Just make new from VPS
easy to setup and use
I created an free account on AWS and Oracle both with Openvpn Server.
When I get a few hours of free time I’ll create one with WireGuard.
One of these days I’m going to have to learn how to set up a von with OpenVPN and wireguard
I used to use PIA, but now use Surfshark via Wireguard. Decent speeds, mostly use it for downloading Linux ISOs inside a docker container via gluetun. But there’s no port forwarding, which is a bummer. I’ll probably switch to Mullvad or IVPN when my current subscription ends.