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Why VPN tunnels are safer than opening a port on my router?
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I think you misunderstood the advice. If your goal is to open your services to the internet then any of the approaches can let in an attacker. It would depend on whether any of the things you expose to the internet has a remote exploitable vulnerability.
A long-standing software like SSH or WG that everybody relies on and everybody checks all the time will have fewer vulnerabilities than a service made by one person, that you expose over reverse proxy; but they're not 100% foolproof either.
The Tailscale advice is about connecting your devices privately, on a private mesh network that is never exposed to the internet.
If you're behind CGNAT and use a VPS to open up to the internet then any method you use to tunnel traffic from the VPS into your LAN will have the same risk because it's the service inside that's the most vulnerable not the tunnel itself.