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this is a fine solution, and what i've used before. it's worth pointing out that you only gain privacy for browsers and apps that _choose_ to use IE's proxy se
by dustingetz 15y ago
this is a fine solution, and what i've used before.
it's worth pointing out that you only gain privacy for browsers and apps that _choose_ to use IE's proxy settings. your native IM client, even if it is using HTTP, may or may not use the proxy. Your remote desktop client probably isn't using HTTP so it can't use the proxy.
with VPN you just don't care, all network traffic is routed through the VPN at network-driver level.
- coderrr 15y agoOne interesting benefit of using a local proxy tunnel (instead of VPN) is that you get rid of one round trip when making TCP connections. Since your browser will connect to localhost (~0ms) it will be able to send the HTTP request immediately rather than having to wait for a connection to be established to a remote host. Whether this actually ends up being faster or not depends on the distance between you and your proxy server and your proxy server and the remote host you're connecting to.