This post has various elements. Some are related with tor (proxies). Please help with whatever you can
My cousins are in a state where they have blocked reddit, telegram, discord, twitter and other messaging apps. Certain vpns with servers in the country are ok to use but if say mullvad is used which doesnt have servers in the country, then it might become an issue, it might not but why risk it. Some of these platforms are either mobile only or they don’t work if used through the tor network like reddit and twitter. All these websites work well with orbot which uses tor network but orbot doesn’t work in ios and drains too much battery in android and keeps on auto closing even if it has unrestricted access to battery.
I am running debian 12 in a live usb, with persistance, my goal is to install the following things and to achieve privacy and anonymity and handover this usb to my cousins so that they can use the emulator to run the apk apps of the blocked platforms and stay connected. Please let me know if something else needs to be installed apart from this, so that the goal of privacy and anonymity can be achieved. I am myself new to linux and did all what’s mentioned below using various tutorials on the internet and using youtube as a reference but I have hit a roadblock. Please help me out.
Tor proxies
Installed them. Firefox esr shows a tor exit node as the ip but when I check in terminal using commands to verify whether tor proxies are working fine or not, it gives some error, I forgot what exactly it said. How to make sure that the tor proxies have been correctly set up or not? And is there a way to select a bridge like obsf4 while using these proxies?
macchanger
Installed macchanger. Selected yes when it asks after installation whether you want to change the mac everytime. Then entered the command to automatically change the mac id of wlan. But the internet just stops working. Tried bringing down the interface, again changing mac address to a random one, bringing the interface up, renewing the ip but nothing helps. After sometime the mac id of wlan switches back to the original one and the internet starts to work fine. Why is this happening and what’s the solution?
Firewall
Tried multiple firewalls. They have some sudo command which tests that it is set up correctly and has a command which says that I shouldn’t get a response from http://www.example.com but I am able to get a response from http://www.example.com which as per the tutorials on the internet I shouldn’t as it goes through the clearnet. What am I doing wrong here?
Proxy Chains
What is the difference between proxy chains and tor proxies? Which one is better?
Anonsurf
Is anonsurf needed or will tor proxies make sure that all traffic is routed through the tor network? Installed it for testing and started the service but the internet stops working when this service is started. Stopping the service restores the internet. What do you think?
Emulators
Instead of the google and other crap, I zeroed in on anbox and waydroid. Though anbox’s development has been stopped but people said that they were able to install it on other forums. I was not able to install either of them
Why is that so? Is there any similar lightweight android emulator for android? Found this one, a cloud emulator which requires no registration and is free to use Android emulator online - MyAndroid but it is not working, it sometimes doesn’t even install the apk file and sometimes doesn’t open the installed file. Can someone please check the same?
If tor proxies are installed in debian and then an android emulator is used to access these blocked platforms then will the emulator have all the information about the pc in which debian is used? Will the app also know that it is being run in an emulator in debian in a pc whose specs are xx ram xx processor etc.?