what is socks5?
a lightweight tunnelling protocol that forwards raw tcp, and optionally udp, through a proxy without understanding what is inside it.
the client opens a tcp connection to the proxy, runs a short handshake with optional username and password auth, names the destination host and port, and after that the proxy just pipes bytes in both directions. socks5 does not parse http, adds no headers, and rewrites nothing, so it can carry any tcp protocol: ssh, imap, grpc, game traffic, database connections. it can also pass a hostname rather than an address, letting the proxy resolve dns at the exit, which keeps your local resolver out of the path and avoids leaking what you are visiting to your isp. it provides no encryption of its own; whatever privacy you get comes from the protocol inside, normally tls. compared with an http proxy it is more general and contributes nothing to fingerprint you by. myx exposes socks5 on its own port alongside http, with the same credentials.