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/

  • 0v0@sopuli.xyz
    69·
    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.

    • Anomander@kbin.social
      26·
      1 year ago

      There’s the necessary info, thank you! - I’ve heard horror stories about hosting exit nodes, and was immediately spooked this would result in the same issues.

    • ares35@kbin.social
      16·
      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·
        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).