[phillc73]

Maybe it's also a generational thing. In the 90s, I remember running my own squid proxy on a remote shared box somewhere, in order to circumvent "things."

Granted, today, if it was just getting around general network restrictions via blacklist, then tethering is very convenient.

[chgs]

Ssh -D is quite handy

[wkat4242]

Tinyproxy also, when socks5 isn't supported