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for those who don't know:

snowflake is a project by TOR that allows people to access censored services. Anyone can run a snowflake proxy. I'm using their firefox extension. more details here: https://snowflake.torproject.org/

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[-] kev@lemmy.kevhomeit.trade 36 points 1 year ago

Any repercussions by doing this?

[-] 0v0@sopuli.xyz 69 points 1 year ago

The snowflake proxy acts as a bridge to the tor network at the entry side. If by repercussions you mean risk of exit-node traffic, there are none. It might cost a little bit of bandwidth.

[-] ares35@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

so. basically alternative tor entry points you can run in your browser for those who can't connect directly to the tor network themselves?

[-] 0v0@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

Indeed. This works because direct connections to the tor network are easily censored, but WebRTC is not (not without a lot of collateral damage at least).

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