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by yc1010 4191 days ago
One reason would be if you have coded a robot to scrape http(s) content of other sites, its easier to configure wget/curl/own_code to use your proxy (or even a list of own proxies) than seting up vpn,

see my post above in this thread about setting up tinyproxy

can also use haproxy if its only one specific site you are scraping