This post led me to learning about proxies, so thank you. What is the benefit of using a proxy if you already use a good VPN? It seems redundant as I'm understanding it.
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Could you help an unlearned pleb with proxies? I wouldn't even know where to start.
I just googled (not literally, fuck Google) 'proxies' and read some of the results. You basically pay someone to route your data through their server, which obscures your IP address. A VPN accomplishes the same thing but *also* encrypts your data. Hence, I'm not sure why someone would use a proxy in addition to or instead of a VPN.
Proxies take many forms. If youre using VPN, thats generally good enough. Many tor setups connect through a socks proxy on local device or lan device to pass on to tor. Some esoteric setups rely on proxies performing listening and eatablishing a new outbound (similar to NAT) which can leverage one vpn from source to proxy, which in turn uses a different vpn to destination (or amother proxy)