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I just dont have your trust of the Russians. I dont trust any company really but particularly not them. No good can come from anything like that
Again, not much to monetize from that:
At worst they could hack my phone. But then we'd have a different kind of problem.
You use a VPN at least?
Reverse proxy for unimportant, VPN for important
How do (reverse) proxies work?
Im only aware of terms like "Munchausens by Proxy" or "Proxy Wars" aha, seems to be some kind of stand in or something?
You are better served searching up on it by looking for networking guides.
Rudimentary it could be called a middleman facilitating the connection between two hosts (server and client)