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		lukaszkorecki on May 10, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Music Service That's what I did - I got a cheapest VPS for $5 so that I can stream stuff from Hulu/CrunchyRoll/and few other services. Plus - it's always useful to have a VPS anyway.

mustpax on May 10, 2011 [–]

Do you just port forward with SSH via -D? Or do you use some sort of VPN solution?

p4bl0 on May 12, 2011 | [–]

Yep what I would do is just `ssh -C -N -D <port> <host>` and then tell my browser to use the SOCKS proxy at localhost:<port>.

(BTW, -D create a SOCKS proxy, port fowarding is done using -L :-).)

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