Why not a direct VPN/WireGuard link to your home network? Works flawless.

We are using Tick Tick. https://www.ticktick.com/ We made several lists per store type.

Yes, your traffic is encrypted through the VPN tunnel, to the other location, but than you need to get access to the internet again. SSL traffic is already private, so there you don’t need an VPN for. Yeah, you get another IP, but you browse on the internet (same fingerprint) your pc has access to the internet (same hardware ID) and so on. So you can be tracked still. There are multiple videos on YouTube telling you a VPN on its own is a private method to access the Internet. Look for it.

A VPN is not for privacy. It simply put your front door to another location. There needs to be more done for being “private”. But Mullvad would be a good start.

And are you really sure they deleted your account? Or just saying?

Try Quad9 DNS resolver

I have this also all the time on my Microsoft account. All un-successful of course (long password and 2FA activated). So stopped looking at this.