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Setting up HMA on Ubuntu

There are variety of reasons for wanting to setup a proxy connection on your machine. Getting this done on a Windows OS is simple, with tools like HMA! ( Hide My Ass! ) However, the surprise is it is quite easy to get it done on Ubuntu as well. This is for Ubuntu 18.10, I haven't really tried on another OS but the steps would remain the same. Do note that you will need a valid HMA username and password for this to work. There are 3 ways you can connect using HMA, I chose OpenVPN. Steps: First you need to setup OpenVPN on your machine if it is not available already     sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn-gnome Next you need the download the certificate and VPN config files from official HMA website          Download HMA VPN Configs Here! Save it in a folder on your machine and extract it. I prefer ~/vpn_HMA/     cd ~/     mkdir vpn_HMA/ Once you have the extracted folder in place, the next step is to connect to proxy using the Network Manager. It is pres