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[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

a whole new country relying on the snowflake protocol.

That would put them in the company of China, Russia, and Iran. Getting unrestricted Internet to people in those countries is why I am among those who run a snowflake node on a dedicated VPS (the link also has a simple browser addon -- it's easy to support the network, everyone should)

Yes, these moves suck for UK youth. But, anti-censorship tools do exist, and volunteers like me want people who could benefit from them, to know about & use them.

any sane adult should never send a copy of their id to anything but the government, bank, insurance or employer.

100% agree, take my upvote

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

Does Snowflake still work in China? Thought I read they're now able to detect and block it.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Just out of curiosity how does one connect to the snowflake in the event that normal Tor does not work? (in minecraft)

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

In general real-time games are not great for Tor, because it introduces lots of network latency -- which makes you safer

For most applications, the easiest way to Torify is via using SOCKS from the Tor Browser Bundle, which would let you simply pick Snowflake when Tor Browser starts up. I asked Perplexity for directions on running Minecraft over Tor, here ya go