How was the Snowflake proxy used in 2023?
How was the Snowflake proxy used in 2023?
This is a summary of usage of the Snowflake pluggable transport in 2023. For the previous year’s summary, see the Snowflake 2022 year in review. The primary Snowflake bridge, called snowflake-01, is supported by donations. In 2023, the Snowflake Daily Operations team paid about €4,820 in hosting ex...
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.
Snowflake relaying from all my devices
Any way to make it work on Android firefox? I have an old android lying around would be nice to make it useful to people in need.
EDIT:
Never mind, installed orbot :)
If installing extension is not an option for you -
- You can open https://snowflake.torproject.org/ (or https://relay.love/) on a tab,
- scroll down to 'Leave this browser tab open or embed a web badge on your website' section
- toggle 'Enabled' button
- and leave the browser running.
- Note: Browser needs to have WebRTC enabled to make it work.
I'm personally running Snowflake container on docker on my little Raspberry pi 24/7. And, yes, in 2023 most of the connection to my bridge was from Iran.
What I like is how easy it is to become a Snowflake proxy. Just install the addon on your normal browser, and turn it on.
What a bunch of snowflakes
/j
Can someone help me understand how this might be a better idea than using an SSL-VPN such as OpenVPN/SoftEther and connecting to TOR from the VPN endpoint instead of using Snowflake?
I'd like to use my own infrastructure and am also looking for comparisons/security analysis of Snowflake
It works for people where vpn protocols are blocked