Add proxy settings (socks5, ...)

Brave Feature Requests Android Requests
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Please add proxy settings like socks5 and etc. There is no excuse why brave doesn’t have this important feature.

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Agree 100%. This should be a no brainer.

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I totally agree! Now I have to use firefox for proxy because Firefox has such an option.

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I believe some of Brave users (including me) really need this important feature both on desktop and phone (Android, iOS).

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What’s the problem with using a proxy at the OS-level? Could you pls elaborate?
Plus, Brave is based on Chromium which doesn’t have the feature. Firefox is based on Gecko, which supports it. So for Brave to implement it, it’ll take A LOT of time. Open this issue on Brave’s GitHub page. They might put it on their roadmap, speeding it up.
OR, Suggest it to the developers of chromium project. I don’t know how to do that so you’ll have to find it out yourself. Sorry I couldn’t help you on that.
Hope this helped you :slight_smile:

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Some sotware/application connect to associated server that immediately flags/restricts/banned account accessed from certain IPs (e.g. data center that often be used to host proxy). So limiting scope of the proxy can be important in some situation.
Also if the SOCKS5 proxy is from the localhost (127.0.0.1) from tunnel like SSH or Shadowsocks, OS-level proxy can cause circular problem e.g. the SSH/Shadowsocks client must connect to the server but the connection must go through proxy that depend on the tunnel by it.
I don’t know if this counts but Chromium can use proxy and resolve the proxy server using bootstrap DNS but only in command line using these two flags.
–proxy-server=“socks5://server:8080”
–host-resolver-rules=“MAP * ~NOTFOUND , EXCLUDE server”
Maybe by using some magic this could appear on the Brave setting GUI. I don’t know.
I’ve never tried bringing it up on GitHub before, but thank you.

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Hello there,
Thank you for telling me about it. Didn’t know it existed in chromium.
I suppose Brave’s product designing team might be able to help.
Hey @aguscruiz could you pls implement this feature? Users coming from Firefox will find it useful. Thank you!

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