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submitted 2 days ago by Crumpled6273@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I have been using it for more than a week and now am worried about the consequences that I am not sure are true or not!

I am worried that by allowing random users to surf using my network to prevent surveillance, someone will use my address to do malicious things, and I will get into legal consequences. Also, what if many services blacklist my IP address so eventually I get a lot of restrictions in my browing experience.

Furthermore, will this extension increase my fingerprint?

Are these thoughts valid, or am I just overthinking? If anyone knows, please comment.

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[-] pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr 9 points 2 days ago

How/why would a VPN be useful for this ?

[-] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago

It’s the opposite of useful it would break snowflake. You are setting up Snowflake in the first place to give users who have to deal with VPN and IP blocks the opportunity to connect to the onion network through you - if you hide the snowflake relay behind a VPN it is useless to those users.

[-] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org -4 points 1 day ago

it would prevent your internet provider from seeing the activity of other people connecting through your PC

[-] pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr 1 points 17 hours ago

The ISP would only see "encrypted video call"-like traffic between you and the people who connect to Tor through your snowflake.

[-] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 1 points 3 hours ago

But if you use a VPN regularly, like always, suddenly seeing a different type of traffic would look weird

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