This is in sharp contrast to a VPN, where all your device’s internet traffic is routed to the VPN server through a secure encrypted VPN tunnel. SOCKS5 does not encrypt your data, so anyone who can intercept your traffic (for example, using a man-in-the-middle attack) can access it. Learn about the difference between a proxy and a VPN Why Proton VPN does not support SOCKS 5 (and never will) It’s a useful protocol for forwarding all kinds of internet traffic, including File Transfer Protocol (FTP), POP3 and SMTP (used for sending and receiving emails), Internet Relay Chat (IRC), and BitTorrent. SOCKS5 is the latest version of SOCKS, a simple proxy protocol originally specified in 1996. Learn more about how VPNs work What is a SOCKS5 proxy? VPN servers, like the ones run by Proton VPN, are a special kind of proxy server. This means your internet traffic passes through the proxy server and any website you connect to will only see that server’s IP address and physical location. What is a proxy?Ī proxy is a server that sits between your device and the internet.
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