Warpping Discord around a VPN

Discord got banned where I live. I'm trying to find a way to route Discord to a specific proxy, or in other words warpring it around a VPN. I do not want to run a VPN system wide as this will significantly decrease internet speed, and also could affect connectivity in many games. Anyone has an effective way to do this? I'm running Bazzite on my system, and I use Vesktop as the Discord client, which is a flatpak. Any help is appreciated

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wth@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 317d (5 replies)

Some VPNs allow you to select apps that are affected or not (proton does). That might allow you to route discord only via a chosen country.

joseplinux@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 317d (4 replies)

Not the Linux version unfortunately

WIPocket@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 317d (3 replies)

It does (not sure how well), but it seems to be a paid feature. Found under Settings -> Split tunneling.

DrDystopia@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 317d (2 replies)

I don't see it, care to elaborate?

WIPocket@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 317d (1 reply)

I found it in the settings:

Under "Features":

DrDystopia@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 315d

Thanks, I need to have another look then.

trillian@feddit.org · 5 pts · 317d (2 replies)

Did you look into network namespaces? With these you should be able to dedicate a namespace for the VPN adapter and then move discord into it, at least with wireguard it works flawlessly.

WIPocket@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 317d (1 reply)

Do you have any tool to help with that? Ive set this up in the past, but it was pretty hands-on namespacing to get it to work rootless.

Edit: For completeness, here is a script similar to what I use.

trillian@feddit.org · 1 pts · 317d

I am not sure if this is helpful but I just created a systemd unit that sets up the network namespace in the background. Then, as I use nixos, I add the wireguard VPN to nix and with networking.wireguard.interface.name.interfaceNamespace you can then move it into the container. For running applications I cannot really comment because I have only one service making use of the VPN which runs inside a NixOS container for which the namespace can be configured with --network-namespace-path=/run/netns/…

Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 317d (2 replies)

Could you run Tor and use the discord web browser version?

joseplinux@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 317d (1 reply)

If all else fails, I'll probably end up doing just that, running discord inside a browser with a VPN extension

boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 317d

Try oniux for that, exactly what you need

Otherwise look into oniux and how to replace arti with wireguare/shadowsocks/xray/amneziawg

boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 317d
hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 317d

i usually run wireproxy with cloudflare warp (wgcf) for this purpose

zapret might also work

CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in · 1 pts · 317d

Try zapret, find settings that work for you on it.

utopiah@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 317d

Might want to look into split tunneling.