I have been using it for more than a week and now am worried about the consequences that I am not sure are true or not!
I am worried that by allowing random users to surf using my network to prevent surveillance, someone will use my address to do malicious things, and I will get into legal consequences. Also, what if many services blacklist my IP address so eventually I get a lot of restrictions in my browing experience.
Furthermore, will this extension increase my fingerprint?
Are these thoughts valid, or am I just overthinking? If anyone knows, please comment.
You cannot get into legal trouble for snowflake afaik. Its only a bridge, not an exit node. This means that websites the other person visits will see the exit nodes public ip, not yours.
Running a vpn for snowflake will only slow down the other persons connection without giving you much better security.
If it helps I’ve been running snowflake on my main browser for about a year now with no issues (not saying this is definitive proof for anything though.)
Can the ISP see the websites the other person is visiting?
No, but they see that you are connected to a tor entry node and that someone is sending you data. From this they can conclude that you are running a tor proxy.
As others have said, you are as safe as running a non exit node
I am worried that by allowing random users to surf using my network to prevent surveillance, someone will use my address to do malicious things, and I will get into legal consequences.
Yeah. That’s not a hidden risk, that’s an up-front risk you accept by using the extension. You may want to not let it keep running while the browser is closed, which would reduce how long the connection lets others use your IP.
All extensions make a fingerprint more identifiable. This is usually only used with Tor if a Tor connection is blocked, so if you’re just using this on Chrome or stock FF, yes, it will be very unique.
You’re having valid thoughts - but what are you trying to do? Why not just use a VPN?
This would only be correct if this would be an exit node, which it isn’t.
This extension is not about personal gain but supporting people who can’t enter the your network due to their local legislation.
Your fingerprinting argument only works for exit nodes - there you’re be absolutely right though!
My ISP just aggressively blocking VPN and running tor network 24*7 system-wide doesn’t make sense at all. To prevent network throttling I have to disable my VPN sometimes, and I only enable it when really needed which rarely bcz tor browser exist.
Deleted as my comment was useless.
What you commented? And why it’s useless?
