Re: Snowflake proxy and TOR to bypass Internet censorship

In article <[email protected]>
Nomen Nescio <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote:
>
> Snowflake is a system for bypassing Internet censorship. People who
> are censored can use Snowflake to access the Internet.
>
> If your Internet access is not censored, please consider installing
> Snowflake to help users on censored networks.
>
> Like a Tor bridge, a user can access the open Internet when even
> regular Tor connections are censored. Using Snowflake is as simple
> as switching to a new bridge configuration in the Tor browser.
>
> Snowflake allows to connect to the Tor network in places where Tor
> is blocked by routing connection through volunteer proxies located
> in uncensored countries.
>
> The Snowflake system consists of three components: Volunteers who
> run Snowflake proxies, Tor users who want to connect to the
> Internet, and a broker that delivers Snowflake proxies to users.
>
> You don't need to worry about the websites that users access
> through your proxy. Their visible IP address will be the one of the
> Tor exit node and not yours.
>
> Install in Firefox
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/torproject-snowflake/
>
> Install in Chrome
> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/snowflake/mafpmfcccpbjnhf
> hjnllmmalhifmlcie
>
>
> https://snowflake.torproject.org/

Hardly seems worthwhile. Also, there's no way to know how much bandwidth 
it uses.

Your Snowflake is ready to help users circumvent censorship

Number of users your Snowflake has helped circumvent censorship in the 
last 24 hours: 26

Note: I've been running it for 25 hours as of now.