Proxy Usage and Limitations
Discussions focus on the capabilities, limitations, and privacy concerns of using proxies for web and HTTPS traffic, often comparing them to VPNs and suggesting proxy services.
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Can the proxies be (ab)used to proxy arbitrary HTTPS traffic?
Aren't proxies good enough for that purpose?
Web proxy software isn't quite ready for it AFAICT.
What about using a proxy or a vpn?
Who does the proxying? Does it expose all your traffic to yet another entity?
Maybe they are proxying web traffic...
That's not how proxies work
Proxy is not yet supported widely enough, sadly.
Maybe a proxy service a la Firefox Relay
In my case, proxy alone doesn't help. It only works with VPN now :(.