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> For Firefox, I create a separate profile.

Firefox supports per-container (and as such per-tab) SOCKS proxies, which I find really useful.

So useful, in fact, that I've come full circle and I am now running a userspace Wireguard to SOCKS proxy [1] in order to have that convenience for a VPN which does not have any host I could SSH to.

[1] https://github.com/whyvl/wireproxy



If you're using Tailscale you can install it on your Apple TV (if you also happen to have one of those devices).

Now you can use your home connection as a proxy through wireguard when traveling.


Tailscale is great, but by itself is the wrong tool for the task of routing traffic over some host only for a single browser tab (but to all destinations for that browser tab), as it seems to be "all or nothing" when it comes to using a remote exit node.

It's probably possible to set up a local SOCKS proxy that knows to use some Tailscale non-exit-node for egress, and to manually allow that traffic within Tailscale and on the remote node, but not out of the box as far as I can tell.

Installing a SOCKS proxy on the remote node, reachable only over Tailscale, would be an alternative, but that doesn't work on an Apple TV.




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