On this tutorial, you can raise your SOCKS proxy server for free and are no longer afraid of your privacy.

Get an instance

• Find an instance on one of the below listed hosting

  AzureStarting at $3/month, $100 free credits for studentsOracleAlways Free VPS, 1cpu 1gb arch64 or 4cpu 24gb arm64Digital OceanStarting at $5/month, $100 free credits

  There are only a few, in fact you can find many free ones

• I will use Oracle Cloud VPS in arm64

  

• After that enter to instance by ssh (I will use putty)

  

Raise the Proxy

• Run the following commands in order

  $ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install nano dante-server$ sudo rm /etc/danted.conf

• Run the following command and save second network

  $ ip a

  enp0s3 in my case

• Run the following command and paste next

  $ sudo nano /etc/danted.conf
  logoutput: syslog user.privileged: root user.unprivileged: nobody # You can set own port instead of 3784 internal: 0.0.0.0 port=3784 # Paste your own network interface, in my case enp0s3 external: enp0s3 socksmethod: username clientmethod: none client pass { from: 0.0.0.0/0 to: 0.0.0.0/0 } socks pass { from: 0.0.0.0/0 to: 0.0.0.0/0 }

• Save and quit

  Ctrl + S
  Ctrl + W

• Allow firewall to open port which you are use in config

  $ sudo ufw allow port

• You must add rule in your service firewall, in my case Oracle Cloud

  

• Restrict proxy for user and password

  $ sudo useradd -r -s /bin/false your_username$ sudo passwd your_username

• Restart service and set it to daemon

  $ sudo systemctl restart danted.service

• Check status

  $ sudo systemctl status danted.service

How to use?

• FoxyProxy for Mozilla Firefox

  

• Android

  

• Apple products

  Settings -> Wi-Fi

  Enter blue i button from name of network, which you connected

  Scroll down and you have to see `Proxy settings`

  Choose `Manually`