I’ve been looking for a webproxy that would work with big websites like YouTube. So far I’ve found only very outdated and abandoned ones. Is there any up-to-date and actually functional webproxy I could host?

Edit: The reason I need this is that there are some locked up Windows computers I can’t install any traditional VPNs on and that are used by non-tech-savvy people.

I can’t pin the comment with the solution so here’s the link

  • linuxguy@piefed.caEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    Ssh includes a built in socks proxy. What are you actually trying to accomplish?

    • myszka@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I’m trying to find an alternative to VPN to be used on a locked up Windows device I can’t install any apps on. And it should be easy enough to be usable by non-tech-savvy people. @moonpiedumplings@programming.dev already provided a good solution

      • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        If I’m understanding, this is like the old trick of using Google translate to bypass web blacklists.

        But it won’t work for networks which implement whitelists.

        • moonpiedumplings@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          So, my high school used to have a domain/ip whitelist. The trick to get around whitelists is to take advandage of the fact that whole subdomains or cloud providers would be included in the whitelist.

          Any duckdns subdomain, or anything hosted on many cloud providers would be unblocked.

          So holy unblocker has a one click deploy, which can deploy to PaaS sites which would usually have their entire ip address space and subdomains included in the whitelist.

          @myszka@lemmy.ml

  • TheHolm@aussie.zoneEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    you can’t going wrong with squid. It was around forever, and still in development.

  • moonpiedumplings@programming.devEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Yeah you want the titanium networks projects, which are essentially a bunch of web proxies exactly like what you ask for.

    I used to use Metallic, but it’s not actually that good and not maintained anymore.

    Here is a public instance of holy unblocker: https://uc.robby.blue/scramjet

    This is one of their flagship projects, and is what you want. Self hostable of course, code on github. I preferred the projects that give you internal tabs though, like hypertabs or anura.

    Public anura instance: https://anura.pro/ (but anura looks like a pain to self host, it’s much more complex)

    • jode@pawb.socialEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Wow I used that to play miniclip games at school in like 2007 I can’t believe it still exists.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

    3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.

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