I installed this so I could browse from work without my traffic being monitored, for when I do anything my employer may not like. It does not cache any content so the resource overhead is minimal. Tunnelling it through SSH gives extra protection and avoids the need to have the proxy open to the whole Internet, it has no built in login feature that I know of. It's not fast but for occasional use it's perfectly adequate.
The default configuration (/etc/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.conf) is pretty good but I've changed the following to reduce the potential overhead:
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MaxClients 1
MinSpareServers 1
MaxSpareServers 4
StartServers 3
Any comments or questions?