Penn Proxy

Create the first profile by specifying its name and selecting the desired configuration. The configuration is a non-repeating combination of different versions of the operating system and browser. After setting the language, open the "Network" tab and select the type of proxy (socks5 or https). Now it remains only to fill in the data in the highlighted fields to complete the installation of the proxy.

To configure a Socks5 proxy for Chrome in Selenium using Python, you can use the --proxy-server command-line option with the Socks5 proxy address. Here's an example using the webdriver.Chrome class in Python:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService

# Socks5 proxy configuration
socks5_proxy = "socks5://127.0.0.1:1080"  # Replace with your actual Socks5 proxy address

# Configure Chrome options with proxy settings
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument(f'--proxy-server={socks5_proxy}')

# Create a Chrome WebDriver instance with the configured options
chrome_service = ChromeService(executable_path="path/to/chromedriver")  # Replace with the actual path
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=chrome_service, options=chrome_options)

# Example: Navigate to a website using the configured proxy
driver.get("https://www.example.com")

# Perform other actions with the WebDriver as needed

# Close the browser window
driver.quit()

- Replace "socks5://127.0.0.1:1080" with the actual Socks5 proxy address you want to use.
- Download the ChromeDriver executable from the official ChromeDriver download page and provide the path to the executable in the executable_path parameter of ChromeService.
- Update the driver.get() method to navigate to the website you want.

Make sure to have the selenium library installed (pip install selenium) and ensure that the ChromeDriver version is compatible with the Chrome browser installed on your system.

You can check it with the ping command from the command line in Windows. It is enough to enter it, with a space - the data of the proxy server (including the number of the port used) and press Enter. The reply message will tell you whether or not you have received a reply from the remote server. If not, the proxy is unavailable, respectively.

A proxy is just used to bypass torrent download blocking through your ISP's network. Separately, the proxy server can block the host, that is, the owner of the site where the torrent files are posted. But it happens mostly due to malicious violations of the rules for using such a resource (for example, "cheating" rating).

Technically, ISP can block only some intermediary servers by IP-addresses. But it's impossible to block absolutely all VPN-servers, because there are so many of them and their addresses are constantly changing. Accordingly, in this case, you just need to use another VPN-server.