I just installed Brave to have some different accs logged, and then I saw that addon… I’m running it right now but… did I just set a Tor relay? Really? It wasn’t that easy before :S

  • PiraHxCx@lemmy.mlOP
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    19 hours ago

    also, if someone ends up connecting to me and go straight to cp, it’s going to be my fucking address there?? haha

    • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works
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      18 hours ago

      Fyi a snowflake proxy, is when your acting as a entrypoint via tor.

      So if you lived in china and when the government restricts internet acess.

      If you tried to connect to tor there great firewall would block all public tor entrypoints.

      So a snowflake proxy is where a user, such as one who lives in china can enter the tor network via the snowflake proxy to where the 3 hops starts in the onion routing process. Which then anonimizes there traffic, also i believe in certain countrys, such as the US. If someone where to do something illegal via your tor node, you would not be liable because of safe harbor rules.

      Which in overly simplified terms. Is like facebook or snapchat, if a user posts something illegal facebook doesn’t get in trouble for hosting it, as long as they follow take down requests they dont get in trouble.

      FYI im NOT a lawer but this is what i heard

      • PiraHxCx@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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        10 hours ago

        Oh yeah, the only problem would be if this simply addon could turn me into an exit node (which is a more complicated thing than just running guard or middle), but being a guard-guard, well, this addon sounds pretty cool :)

    • basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      18 hours ago

      No, I beleive that is just a snowflake proxy, which basically is just used when somebody first connects to the tor network to hook them up to an entrance node. So your computer is not actually acting as a node but rather an intermediary. I would also suggest not using Brave browser because I have heard bad things about it’s owner and just their general policies. Many people say that brave browser is really just privacy cosplay. You can just get a copy of firefox and manually harden it yourself using noscript and a vpn. Or skip that and just use tor browser for all your privacy intensive stuff.

      • PiraHxCx@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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        10 hours ago

        My main browser is LibreWolf and I have Mullvad for some other accs. I do however have old stuff that turned disposable now, and I decided to let these logged on Brave out of convenience (since to let accs logged on Mullvad or Tor you have to enable history and cookies and it defeats the purpose of those browsers :P)
        I’m also using Brave to check some stuff because all the aforementioned browsers break some canvas script and I use those for image effects in my site and I’m trying to fix the script so it works on hardened browsers.