Proxy Chrome via SSH
SSH can be used as a poor men's VPN for applications that support SOCKS.
This approach does not substitute a proper VPN! But it might come in handy in some occasions:
- when VPN is not available / accessible
- to circumvent regional IP blocks
- to test your own IP-based redirects (and blocks)
Set up SSH Proxy
This command will open a SOCKS server on (local) port 8080, but not open a shell (-N
) and go into background (-fn
) immediately.
Default settings from ~/.ssh/config
will of course be applied.
The connection can be ended with kill
.
Chromium / Chrome
Chromium has CLI options to configure a SOCKS proxy. Unfortunately it is not possible (at the moment) to configure this with a GUI.
Without the --host-resolver-rules
option, Chromium might not use the Proxy for some non-HTTP requests (like DNS). More details can be found on the Chromium Wiki.
Multiple independent Chromium instances can also be started at the same time (possibly using different proxies) with --user-data-dir
.
The --incognito
option will remove the temporal user data directory when the instance is closed.
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