Selfhosted
A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.
Rules:
-
Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
-
No spam posting.
-
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
-
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
-
Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
-
No trolling.
-
No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports.
Resources:
- selfh.st Newsletter and index of selfhosted software and apps
- awesome-selfhosted software
- awesome-sysadmin resources
- Self-Hosted Podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting
Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.
Questions? DM the mods!
view the rest of the comments
Close to invidious but not specific to any particular site. A page that allows to open other pages through it, like a browser inside a web page except it's only for opening a website and has no other browser functionality. Here's a proprietary example: croxyproxy.com
Yeah what you want is a SOCKS5 proxy then just launch another browser with the proxy config.
You can run a browser inside a docker or VM, and then use webvnc or something. I just don't see the point.
Thanks! SOCKS5 proxy is a good option, I don't know why I didn't think of it from the very beginning...
My goal is to bypass local censorship on university computers that don't allow running any executables except those provided by the administrator. And I'm trying to help professors who aren't particularly tech-savvy, so a webproxy is actually still a better option.
A browser inside a docker is a very viable solution, however my VPS is super small, so I don't have resources for that unfortunately.
By the way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_IT
These kinds of setups are used to bypass agressive network filtering and content censhorship. All the traffic is http(s). And then the way only a browser is needed means it works on locked down devices like chromebooks.
The browser in docker is something I have used, but it requires more resources to host and can only be used by one person at once if you are using something like linuxserver's webtop.
Then SOCKS is what you want. It can be used on a Chromebook as well.
~~These proxying websites are running full browser instances in the background. It's the only way to guarantee all the traffic is routed through it.~~
I just had a look at croxy you're right, it doesn't run a full browser.... and there's a TON of data that doesn't get proxied.
No, Socks5 does not work for this usecase. You don't get permissions to run it locally via crostini (or use crostini in general) and the relevant proxy settings are locked in the chromebook settings. In addition to this, it is too easy to fingerprint, and some of the more aggressive setups will catch it and block it. For example, my high school would autodetect wireguard and then kick you off of the network for 10 minutes if you attempted to connect.