Re:Snowflake
by anyfactor on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:32PM
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I looked into their community posts [0].
> If you run a snowflake proxy (like the browser extension) people will use your internet connection to connect to Tor, but not to exit to internet. So it doesn’t matter if sites are blocked, anyway they will exit to internet from an exit node in another place. [1]
From the landing page graphics, it looks like the thing is about connecting to a Tor bridge via proxying the traffic through user IP. But it is an iframe embed. From what I know hacking it to get to automatic consent on load isn't very difficult.
I am still a bit spooked. I took a look at couple of adblocking extensions and they are not blocking this service.
> If you run a snowflake proxy (like the browser extension) people will use your internet connection to connect to Tor, but not to exit to internet. So it doesn’t matter if sites are blocked, anyway they will exit to internet from an exit node in another place. [1]
From the landing page graphics, it looks like the thing is about connecting to a Tor bridge via proxying the traffic through user IP. But it is an iframe embed. From what I know hacking it to get to automatic consent on load isn't very difficult.
I am still a bit spooked. I took a look at couple of adblocking extensions and they are not blocking this service.
[0] https://forum.torproject.org/search?q=snowflake
[1] https://forum.torproject.org/t/should-i-run-a-snowflake-prox...