u/viniciospng

In my head I could selfhost a vpn for this?

I think services like tailscale would work? Same as rustdesk/anydesk and things like that.

But lets say I want to access instagram on my phone, I route the request to my home pc, then to instagram and back again, make sense? Recommendations?

Answers TLDR:
Shadowsocks seems like the best bet

VLESS/V2ray, never heard of these ones before, but seems good
Tailscale works, but unreliable
Also, DONT BREAK THE LAW

Edit: "Why do you want a VPN?"
Its a 48 hour flight, Im from Latin America, we rely heavily on whatsapp (Meta) for communication and I would like to talk and send photos to my family

Edit 2: Yes, I speak "good enough" Mandarin (hsk 5 i guess? Studying for 1.5 year)