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Comment by idatum

This is the way: SOCKS5 via SSH

You do need some minimal technical understanding and some scripting.

Pick any cloud provider that can give you a VM with SSH access.

Read up on doing this on your local device or another device on your LAN:

    ssh -NT -g -D 10001 -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o ConnectTimeout=5 -i your_ssh_private_key your_cloud_login@any_cloud_provider_ip
Change 10001 to whatever.

Now read up on how your browser points to a SOCKS5 proxy. For Firefox, I create a separate profile. For chromium based, I use the command line.

You are now virtually located to whatever region you chose for your VM.

I mentioned some scripting. It's simple enough that I have a /bin/sh script to spin up the VM, set up the SSH SOCKS5 proxy, launch the browser, then spin the VM down when the browser exits.

parent idatum 1 year ago

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