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 So far I’ve found only very outdated and abandoned ones.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

    • jode@pawb.socialEnglish
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      4 days 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
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    3 days ago

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

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    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 11 acronyms.

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  • TheHolm@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    5 days ago

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

  • linuxguy@piefed.caEnglish
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    5 days ago

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

    • myszka@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      5 days 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. @[email protected] already provided a good solution

      • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        4 days 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
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          4 days 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.

          @[email protected]

  • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 days ago

    What exactly do you mean by web proxy? Something site specific like Invidious? Or an HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy like danted?

    • myszka@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Close to invidious but not specific to any particular site. A page that allows to open other pages through it, like a browser inside a web page except it’s only for opening a website and has no other browser functionality. Here’s a proprietary example: croxyproxy.com

      • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Yeah what you want is a SOCKS5 proxy then just launch another browser with the proxy config.

        You can run a browser inside a docker or VM, and then use webvnc or something. I just don’t see the point.

        • myszka@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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          5 days ago

          Thanks! SOCKS5 proxy is a good option, I don’t know why I didn’t think of it from the very beginning…

          My goal is to bypass local censorship on university computers that don’t allow running any executables except those provided by the administrator. And I’m trying to help professors who aren’t particularly tech-savvy, so a webproxy is actually still a better option.

          A browser inside a docker is a very viable solution, however my VPS is super small, so I don’t have resources for that unfortunately.