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.
myszka@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
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.
moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 5 hours ago
By the way: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_IT