youtube-dl: --proxy not working

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C:\Users\youtube-dl>youtube-dl.exe -f best --all-subs --username lol --password ololll --ap-username lol --ap-password lol --ap-mso DTV --continue --no-check-certificate --proxy 107.17.92.18:8080 http://watchdisneyjunior.go.com/mickey-and-the-roadster-racers/video/vdka3788100/01/12-the-impossible-race-the-happiest-helpers-cruise#playlist=PL551978168 -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-f', 'best', '--all-subs', '--username', 'PRIVATE', '--password', 'PRIVATE', '--ap-username', 'PRIVATE', '--ap-password', 'PRIVATE', '--ap-mso', 'DTV', '--continue', '--no-check-certificate', '--proxy', '107.17.92.18:8080', 'http://watchdisneyjunior.go.com/mickey-and-the-roadster-racers/video/vdka3788100/01/12-the-impossible-race-the-happiest-helpers-cruise#playlist=PL551978168', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.04.14
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.14393
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-82833-gedb4f5d, ffprobe N-82833-gedb4f5d, rtmpdump 2.3
[debug] Proxy map: {'http': '107.17.92.18:8080', 'https': '107.17.92.18:8080'}
[Go] 12-the-impossible-race-the-happiest-helpers-cruise: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [WinError 10060]An attempt to connect failed because the party had connected, did not respond properly after a period of time, or established connection was terminated because the host did not respond> (caused by URLError(TimeoutError(10060, 'An attempt to connect failed because the party had connected, did not respond properly after a period of time, or established connection was terminated because the host did not respond', None, 10060, None),))
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpykl6x8ju\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 498, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpykl6x8ju\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2100, in urlopen
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 464, in open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 482, in _open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpykl6x8ju\build\youtube_dl\utils.py", line 925, in http_open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1185, in do_open
...
<end of log>

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• Single video: http://watchdisneyjunior.go.com/mickey-and-the-roadster-racers/video/vdka3788100/01/12-the-impossible-race-the-happiest-helpers-cruise#playlist=PL551978168

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Description of issue

When I try using proxy from a free proxy list (hidemyass). It never works. I’ve also tried other ones, but I don’t understand why. Maybe I’m just a noob. But I don’t get this at all. I type IP and port. (–proxy 107.17.92.18:8080). It works fine with usual VPN.