Hacky VPN-like setup to quickly start a browsing session with an different IP

gistfile1.txt

#!/bin/bash

cd "$(dirname "$0")/.."

set +ex

# Setup tunnel
ssh  -D 9090 -N -f  <user>@somehostintheus.com

# Open chrome
/Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium --proxy-server="socks5://localhost:9090" --host-resolver-rules="MAP * ~NOTFOUND , EXCLUDE localhost"

( trap exit SIGINT ; read -r -d '' _ </dev/tty ) ## wait for Ctrl-C

# Find tunnel & quit
PID=$(lsof -i :9090 | head -n +2 | tail -n 1 |  awk '{print $2}')
kill -9 $PID