On: Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website

[jopsen]

Won't this leak DNS and won't lots of system process go avoid the HTTP_PROXY settings?

[kuon → jopsen]

I have my own DNS server on my local network. And yes, this is only for my browser. But this is intended.

If you want to route all traffic to a vpn for a specific machine, you can use pf rules to forward an ip through another routing table.