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> Most likely SOCKS5?

AFAIK, there's still no proper SOCKS user authorization. So if I do something like that on my own VPS, I'll quickly have like 10 000 open connections from Pakistan there.

> At least in Firefox there's builtin UI for configuring it separately from OS

Yes, also extensions like FoxyProxy.

SOCKS4/5 configuration in Firefox is a pure joy. Adding a Putty tunnel there is probably the only simple way to achieve what I described in the comment above.



tunnel it over ssh?


Yes, Connection -> SSH -> Tunnels in Putty connection options.

Add a dynamic tunnel there.

Start the session.

Then enter 127.0.0.1 and the port you've chosen as a SOCKS v5 proxy in Firefox options.

Congratulations! Your poor man's VPN is ready :)




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