@r000t How?

@matrix Well, what do you want? Like a consoomer VPN or are you trying to forward ports?

@r000t I want to access a site not available in eu and download from it with yt-dl, but not want to pay for a consoomer vpn or setup wireguard.

@matrix ssh -D <port> option creates a SOCKS5 proxy. Pass that to youtube-dl

@Moon That might work

@matrix juhst read a couple guides on it, it used to have to have a browser pref changed in FF to pass the DNS through the tunnel but I think Chrome always does it.

@Moon @matrix I use the dynamic forwarding through SOCKS5 with ssh all the time at work, works great (including DNS). The biggest issue with modern browsers is that they all now by default prevent from connecting to a proxy on localhost because as malware/adware mitigation. In Firefox there's a checkbox in the proxy settings dialog to turn that off, chromium/chrome needs to be launched with a commandline option to turn it off

@Moon @matrix Actually I misremembered. The checkbox in FF is what @Moon remembered, what I mean is an about:config option:

@Moon @matrix Needs to be flipped to true ofc

@Moon @matrix And the chrome/chromium command-line switches would be for example

--proxy-server=socks5://localhost:1080 --proxy-bypass-list='<-loopback>'

The second option takes care of disabling that anti-hijacking thing (what it actually does is /remove/ the loopback interface from the default bypass list)

@pingviini @matrix t4hanks for this info, my version of it was not up to date

@Moon @matrix Funny coincidence, I ran into this at work again today and learned something new:

Chrome on Windows uses Windows' own proxy client stuff, and the bypass list given in that option is in fact fed to the windows proxy client settings. So it only applies on Windows. Also, it's not for allowing to connect to a proxy running on localhost, it's for allowing to access "localhost" (or 127.0.0.1, etc) THROUGH the proxy.

I learned all of this because apparently in certain releases of Windows 10, this is broken :(

@matrix then setup SOCKS on whatever program you're using