Social media or not, the tech scene in Malaysia is officially dead. Tech is borderless and money is made borderless too. How do you expect startup to survive without social media?

Malaysia market is way too small and with all the restrictions, it won't be a surprised if we see Shopee or Grab get "quarantined" regularly.

Plus all the Malaysian remote tech worker will looks like pariah now.

So much news they put out about quarantine and kill switch, no one will want to do business here.
Imagine suddenly sakit hati and you kena quarantine or internet got killed. How to fulfill order?
Say your business involve social network, don't need to reply DM as long as the sakit hati continue?

Best to just move to other country that don't even discuss this kind of things.
Once discussed, reputation and confidence is gone.

Maybe consider GL-iNET Routers as well? They have an official store on Shopee
Consider the Flint 2

their routers are advertised as VPN routers, supporting OpenVPN and Wireguard, their firmware is based on OpenWRT

Otherwise I think the latest Asus routers also support Wireguard

or there are also other routers that could be flashed to run OpenWRT

But since you've mentioned Ubiquiti, consider Mikrotik as well, though not cheap

As someone that's running Unifi full stack for my network, it's like a drug to me personally, once I get one thing I want more, that might also applies to you

Considering you are quite technical from your conversation, Mikrotik might be your bread and butter, or even better, use OPNSense as your main and the rest just mix and match and DIY yourself 

Also from what I can gather, PPPoE on Ubiquiti is not as fast as maybe even the Archer C9, Unifi isn't that optimized to use PPPoE protocol and it's more suitable for using like iPoE, if you ever want to push more speed, that might also be a limiting factor. Currently my UDM SE can only pull around 850-870, max I've seen is 910-920 on my 1Gbps, but that might just be an OLT limitation on my side and might again DIFFER from you

Just looked into it, interesting

GL-iNet has more simpler options, you can set it for example so some MAC Addresses bypass it
https://docs.gl-inet.com/router/en/4/interf.../vpn_dashboard/

but no "multiple vpn connections for multiple different devices"

By “can run a VPN” do you mean server or client? I assume it’s the latter (meaning act a client for a VPN service you’ve subscribed to) since you mentioned the DNS shithousery. Do note that most Ubiquiti gateways don’t have WireGuard client functionality listed in their specs, only WireGuard server. I asked for confirmation in the Ubiquiti thread here, but have yet to get a reply. If true, your VPN provider will need to offer OpenVPN (most do) or IPSec protocols (some don’t).

There’s also the matter of hardware acceleration for various protocols to consider. I’ve not dug deep enough yet. I know Mikrotik routers have IPSec acceleration built in. Mediatek processors in GL.iNet and Asus routers support multi-threaded hardware acceleration for WireGuard. The Broadcom chips in higher end Asus (the models compatible with Merlin firmware) have WireGuard acceleration capped to a single core, from what I’ve read on SNB forums. Hope this helps.

Then you can consider using Unifi. currently I have 8 VPN connected on my UDM SE and just using routing policy to route specific devices through certain VPN (Sometimes I route my own devices through VPN on router level to bypass TM's horrible routing), but UCG-Ultra probably can't handle that much OVPN/WG session at once, I'd say maybe 2-3 sessions at once and use policy to route

Fwiw, I ordered an Asus AX59u yesterday for around RM430 (including delivery) via Shopee 9.9 sales. It’s for my mum’s home (I reckon she doesn’t need Merlin, lol) which I’ll be spending more time at over the next few weeks (she’s recovering from surgery), so I should be able to test out the WireGuard (using Swedish Mole provider, not mentioning the name because TM bastids are voyeurs here) performance. May take some time though since I am switching her ISP to Maxis and have yet to get the transfer ID. Earliest I can share results might be next week. Also, I edited my previous post a bit, so the alternative I added to the end might interest you.

fair enough

it is their official store despite not being mall (ps, shopee preferred/mall sellers have to pay more fees)
and yeah it is coming directly from them from HK so it will take some time
you can see it is linked to from https://www.gl-inet.com/where-to-buy/

You can just use ubiquiti teleport which is their own wireguard, pretty sure even Unifi Express has it.

Yeah then Ubiquiti can do that, with how many client with the UCG Ultra unsure but it definitely can’t do 8 simultaneously like my UDM SE

Not surprised. Probably some bigwigs (probably large companies) have complained it's affecting their ops.

My workplace use OpenDNS apparently.

Its their own wireguard server and client. Either way even Express has VPN Server and Client capabilities.

What a stupid argument. Tech giant biased against palestine > we ssl mitm our country network. Whataboutism at its best. The "Think about the kids!" argument are also as old as any tyranism regime everywhere, and the sheeps that lack critical thinking just ate it as it is, " Yes we cared about our kids!". What a shitshow this country has gone into.