We're calling on the Tor & Internet freedom community to help scale up WebTunnel bridges. Ever thought about running a Tor bridge? Now is the time! Our goal is to deploy 200 new WebTunnel bridges by the end of this year to open secure access for users in Russia. https://blog.torproject.org/call-for-webtunnel-bridges/
Can a webtunnel bridge be combined with an already running obfs4 bridge on the same IP?
I am willing to set this up if it can be done on the same server.
@theyosh @torproject in this case, I think it should be ok. Tor is detecting censorship of obfs4 for mobile network users only and it doesn't seem to be IP related blocking, but rather some form of protocol blocking so running a different protocol on the same server (with same IP address) should still be helpful here.
If you're interested you can read more about what Tor is seeing here: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issues/40050 and if you're really interested in the details of how blocking obfs4 by protocol might happen, there's a discussion thread on the net4people BBS: https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/363
Thanks for considering running a webtunnel bridge!
Done, webtunnel is running!
@torproject For people looking to help, but not being tech savvy or just looking for a low effort way to help: consider installing the Snowflake plugin.
@collectifission @torproject this is an interesting concept. I worry about the security of this though. Does snowflake have security policies on what can be proxied? If they are just proxying to my browser, do they have access to my internal network? This feels like it's rife for abuse if they're trying to tell non-tech savy people to use it.
It's just an Entry node which forwards envrypted traffic to the middle node.
@Life_is_Beautiful @torproject @collectifission ah, I thought the extension was acting as an exit node, that makes way more sense.
If you live in a country, where Tor is legal, then you have nothing to worry about.
Your Network or your IP can't be abused.
It's great.
I have been using it since many years.
You can also run a snowflake proxy with the Orbot App on mobile. But it may use some battery. I have it running on an old device I don't care about.
Everyone should do that.
It's so easy.
Install Orbot, click on one button and then the snowflake is activated. That's all.
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To my followers wondering what WebTunnel is:
obfs4 ~ Shadowsocks (high-entropy encrypted traffic)
Snowflake ~ P2P calling
WebTunnel ~ *ray
Let's see how WebTunnel will fare against the constantly evolving DPI systems...