How was the Snowflake proxy used in 2023? (forum.torproject.org)

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We can also break down users by country. The largest contingent of Snowflake users are in Iran, which has been the case since the Mahsa Amini protests in 2022 1. The graph shows also a large number of users apparently from the United States, but we believe that may be partly the result of geolocation errors, and many of them are actually from Iran. After Iran, the countries with the most Snowflake users are Russia and China.

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[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

A proxy is normally only shown if you cannot connect to their entry servers regularly. More apps have this, Signal / Molly, Telegram, ...

So nobody uses a proxy if they dont need to, normally

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