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by earenndil 3152 days ago
Why is SOCKS limited? Just make whatever you want to send your traffic through proxy it through the SOCKS.
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Indeed, ssh -D {port} is something I use heavily (to create a SOCKS5 connection to a remote server, effectively a VPN)
This assumes 'whatever you want to send traffic through' speaks SOCKS.. most things dont. Web yes, but not most other things.
> most things don’t

That’s entirely not true. If you’d said “some”, you’d be right, but “most” is categorically incorrect.