There is no peer capable of running a SOCKS proxy in my scenario. My home router only supports Wireguard.
SOCKS is also usually not encrypted.
Re:Tailscale Has Partnered with Mullvad
by dizhn on Saturday September 09, 2023 @08:09AM
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I have a docker based proxy running on a vm. (I've tried a bunch of them. They all work fine. None of them are hugely better at the bandwidth levels available to me - around 50-70mbps) The proxy is only listening on the wireguard IP. I have my clients connect to that wireguard peer and use the wireguard IP as the proxy. You can't install a proxy on the remote side? It should be possible seeing that you have to install something anyway. I am not sure about not needing root but it should not be a requirement for a proxy server since all it does is make http requests on your behalf.
It is trivial to run a socks proxy on one of the peers and have your browser point to that. Both chrome and firefox can do this on demand and for the sites you select.