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Run SOCKS proxy on Android.
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(This is more of a reference than a blog post.)

The goal is to browse the internet from a PC using the phone's mobile data through a hotspot, as if the traffic was coming from the phone.

  1. Install Termux
    1. Note: I had to use the one from F-Droid since the Google Play version caused an "access denied" error somewhere during the process below.
  2. Create hotspot

In Termux:

# Download Glider
# https://github.com/nadoo/glider

wget 'https://github.com/nadoo/glider/releases/download/v0.16.3/glider_0.16.3_linux_arm64.tar.gz'
tar -xvzf glider_0.16.3_linux_arm64.tar.gz
cd glider_0.16.3_linux_arm64

# Get IP of the phone
ifconfig

# Start Socks proxy
./glider -verbose -listen :8443
  1. Connect PC to hotspot
  2. Configure web browser to use the phone IP and port 8443 as a SOCKS5 proxy