Help others circumvent censorship – Be a snowflake!

Oppressive countries like China or Iran are always trying to find new ways to block their people from seeing the uncensored reality over the internet. Tor is one way to resist against this oppression and therefore those governments try to block it as well.

This is where pluggable transports come into play as alternative ways to enter the Tor network that are harder to block. There is an always ongoing race between the censors to block ways to access Tor and the free internet and the Tor Project to develop new ways to evade those blocks.
The Tor Project has now released a new pluggable transport called Snowflake that requires your help!
You can install the Snowflake Extension for Firefox or Chromium and turn your browser into a Snowflake that allows others to use your internet connection to access Tor!

The extension uses a fancy technology called WebRTC usually used for voice or video calls to allow people under censorship to route their traffic disguised as calls over your browser into the Tor network.

It needs to be installed in a regular browser that can directly access the internet, not into Tor Browser, and you need a decent, uncensored internet connection yourself to help. You do not need to be afraid of the internet activity of other people being associated to you, because your Snowflake will only act as an entry point to the Tor network that will than anonymize the traffic.

The official project page with more information can be found here: regular site/onion site version.

The snowflake extension is only for people who have uncensored access to the internet themselves and want to help others that don't, if your connection to Tor is being censored this guide I wrote some time a go might help you. You can of course also select the snowflake bridge in Tor Browser's settings to bypass censorship.