Proxy server for changing geolocation - recommendations wanted

[Adam Funk]

On 2021-10-11, Chris Green wrote:

> I want to set up a simple proxy server so that I can use my UK library
> services and my doctor's web site when I'm abroad (specifically when
> I'm in France).  In addition it would be handy to use Google Shopping
> (for example) when I'm in France but want to search UK suppliers.
>
> So, while squid is the 'default' proxy server for linux/ubuntu it does
> seem to be heavily oriented towards use as a LAN proxy for handling
> multiple LAN clients' access to the internet.  It looks to me as if it
> would be rather clumsy to use for my application.
>
> Are there any other proxy servers that offer a simple way to allow
> access from remote locations (which don't have a fixed IP as I will be
> using my laptop via all sorts of different means) and will then
> forward my requests as if they were from the server where the proxy is
> running.  I can't see any (simple) way to get squid to do this, it
> *can* do it but doesn't seem the ideal tool.

If you're leaving a server running in the UK (it could be a Raspberry
Pi --- cheap with low power consumption), you can probably use ssh and
tsocks to "re-geolocate" your browsing.

Install the tsocks package then edit /etc/tsocks.conf to add the
following lines to the end (that URL still works and is where I got
this idea):

# http://www.verot.net/socks.htm
server      = 127.0.0.1
server_port = 1080

and comment out the server... options before that.  Then in one
terminal:

ssh -D 1080 -N my.server.example.org

and in another:

tsocks firefox

(works with other commands).

HTH