Snowflake

I have finally identified this extension as the cause of some serious performance issues that my computer was having.  Massive, excessing hard drive activity, dragging everything else down.   The intent is good, but not worth the adverse effect on my computer's performance.

not working in russia.

Running it to contribute to Tor as public good.

For those confused, this extension does not enable tor on your browser, it's just making your network as a proxy/relay to help others who are using snowflake protocol hide their IP.

works well, causes no side effects. Love to see the little icon showing off how many are connecting through my box, very satisfying

Helps fight censorship and I barely notice that it is running. But it would be useful if it showed how much data it has used. Also if you don't want to use the extension you can just go to the embed on Tor's website. (snowflake.torproject.org/embed.html) Overall I give it 5 onions out of 21 ogres.

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I like to think I'm helping stop internet censorship. And I may be, but I may also just be helping some kid bypass his school firewall. Either way, I support that cause.

This is one of the simplest things you can do to help fight censorship and uphold the right to privacy. Some regimes are more oppressive than others, but all will have their authoritarian moment. Thus, we must build resilient systems. This extension is a key component to that resilience. You can just install Snowflake and forget it. Snowflake uses a share of your unused bandwidth to create an encrypted onramp for others to access the TOR network without detection. TOR enables journalists, a... Show more

For the Internet without censorship! Are there any plans to develop a TOR browser extension? Not all use cases for TOR require the anonymity provided by the TOR Browser. Often, it is much more convenient and easier to use a regular browser.