Creates a separate, incognito Chrome/Chromium browser instance, proxied through the given SSH host to maximize privacy.

proxy-chromium.sh

#!/bin/bash

APPLICATION="chromium"
which google-chrome
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
	APPLICATION="google-chrome"
fi

HOST="$1"
if [ "x$HOST" = x ]; then
	echo "usage: $0 <ssh-host>"
	exit 1
fi

ssh -N -D localhost:54321 $HOST &
trap 'for pid in "`pgrep -f "ssh -N -D localhost:54321"`"; do kill $pid; done' INT TERM EXIT

sleep 1

PROXY_PATH="$HOME/.proxy-$APPLICATION"
mkdir -p $PROXY_PATH
$APPLICATION --user-data-dir=$PROXY_PATH --proxy-server="socks://localhost:54321" --incognito