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I did this for years until recently. Now I use wireguard instead. Now I don't need a giant ssh config with stuff like:

  Host myhouse.net
        LocalForward 5902 foo:5900
        LocalForward 3393 bar:3389
        DynamicForward 8083
  Host baz
        ProxyCommand=nc -X 5 -x localhost:8083 %h %p

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It depends on your use case. I use a SOCKS proxy with some applications and not others to do a little bit towards hiding my residential IP. Application-level proxy support is much easier with SOCKS because it's commonly supported. I also have a Firefox extension that can be used to route some URLs via the proxy and others not, because the browser extension API for setting per-request proxies supports SOCKS proxies.

With Wireguard I'd have to create routes to route some some destination IPs over the wg interface, which not only needs management to keep up-to-date with DNS changes but also does not have any way to behave differently for routed applications vs unrouted applications.

> I also have a Firefox extension that can be used to route some URLs via the proxy and others not

FoxyProxy? I love that one.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxyproxy-sta...

No, I wrote my own. I avoid third-party extensions because the risk is too high.

Is there any guides or libraries to help you writing your own proxy switch extension? I have considered writing my own for the same reason, but I don’t know where to start. I have experience in writing simple WebExtension, I just don’t know how to write a socks proxy in JS.

Thanks in advance.

https://gist.github.com/Arnavion/b8d3fa6e6e3efa57fd4c45ada82...

Thank you, it looks so easy!

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