You really don’t need to

Yes is there another option

Why don’t you start a community called home networking

Honestly people should just set there browser to clear cookies on close

I’ve been testing it as well and you may be right

I don’t like proton products. It feels like a false sense of security

I just like config files I guess

I like wireguard because it doesn’t have a lot of overhead

I personally forward all my stuff via a wireguard tunnel setup in linode. However, I would strongly advise against exposing services to the internet.