Help people trying o circumvent censorship by running a Snowflake proxy!

[asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev]

Why use an LLM to make this post?

[llama@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I didn't use an LLM to make the post. I did, however, use Claude to make it clearer since English is not my first language. I hope that answers your question.

[qprimed@lemmy.ml]

yup, been doing this ever since it was availabe on orbot. easy to do and helpful to the Tor network users. please consider doing it yourself. thank you, OP!

[asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev]

Ok, the post feels like it's made by an LLM, that's why.

[llama@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Of course! I run several snowflake proxies across my devices and their browsers.

[honse@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

About how much bandwidth does this use? I know it says not much but can we be more specific. I want to help but have limited upload speeds.

[nudenewt@lemm.ee]

- **Your IP address is not exposed** to users or the websites they access

Can anyone confirm this to be the case?

[swab148@lemm.ee]

Any way to run this on servers? I'd absolutely spin up a Docker image.

[cheradenine@sh.itjust.works]

Instructions are here

https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/snowflake/standalone/docker/

[llama@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

You're not acting as an exit node if you're running a snowflake proxy. Please, check Tor's documentation and Snowflake's documentation.

[korbel@lemmy.ml]

No, the whole point is that you expose your ip address so users in censored countries can connect to it. The proxy is between a user and a tor entry node.

[llama@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I am not entirely sure, to be completely honest. In my experience, it is very little but it varies too. It really depends on how many people connect, for how long they connect, etc. If you have limited upload speeds, maybe it wouldn't be a great idea to run it in your browser/phone. Maybe try running it directly on your computer using the -capacity flag?

I haven't been able to find any specific numbers either, but I did find a post on the Tor Forum dated April 2023 or a user complaining about high bandwidth usage. This is not the norm in my experience, though.