Why YSK: Tor provides a secure, anonymous access to the web to people who can’t do it carelessly like we do (journalists and citizens of authoritarian countries for example).
Snowflake is a legal, zero effort way to help those people access the internet. If you’re interested in how it works, here’s the explaination I’m not including for the sake of brevity.
To actually use snowflake you just have to install the official browser extension
- for firefox
- for every other browser
- no safari afaik
That’s it, just make sure the extension is up and running and never worry about it again, it will do its thing and never bother you or even make you notice it’s there. It’s inexpensive in terms of resources too.
ah. so it’s using webrtc to function as a tor entry node. okay thank you. yes this is not something I’d want to install on my browser lol, but a lot safer than being an exit node.